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Old 09-04-2020, 11:32 AM   #6157
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon View Post
It's like I mentioned early on in the thread. It's not in a virus's best interest to kill the host and over time, it'll mutate into something less harmful. There's been mentions of reinfections but they don't know right now if it's the same virus or a newer less harmful variant.

Yea cases of reinfection have been very rare. Could be a different strain.
This recent study out of Iceland, with a fair sized sample, showed 91% of those infected still had antibodies four months later.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2026116
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