Olga Kurylenko has completely recovered from the coronavirus. [Just Jared]
Lana del Rey should date Brad Pitt? Yeah, I could see that. [LaineyGossip]
Everybody has a “Ellen DeGeneres is a mean person” story. [Dlisted]
The Fug Girls have started Fug Madness, make your brackets. [Go Fug Yourself]
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The Democrats hit the brakes on Moscow Mitch’s scheme. [Jezebel]
Sam Smith is having a quarantine meltdown. [The Blemish]
Robert DeNiro tells people to stay home. [Towleroad]
90 Day Fiance star lost a lot of weight in prison. [Starcasm]
#HappyMothersDay! (For yesterday)
P.S. I have completely recovered 🙏 To recapitulate: For one week I felt pretty bad and was mostly in bed, sleeping, with high fever and strong headache. The second week, the fever was gone but some light cough appeared and I felt very tired… pic.twitter.com/TjPsJUgF9I— Olga Kurylenko (@OlyaKurylenko) March 23, 2020
It’s possible. She seems to be in good shape and has probably addressed it seriously. it is, as I understand, vital for people even if they had it to keep at social distancing as it can come back as well. My friend just recovered, but she’s staying in isolation. To keep everyone safe.
Exactly! You can get it again and again. “Recovered” is not the term to use right now
Bummer. This is the first I’ve heard of this. I’ve been reading Covid-19 coverage ad nauseum, but hadn’t learned this. Are you sure it’s not a relapse, rather than no immunity once you’ve fully recovered? Can you ever infect others if you’ve recovered fully? I guess I’ve been reading much more about its’ spread than its’ recovery…
Because this is a new virus, they don’t know how long it actually takes to “recover” and not be a vector anymore. Therefore, you can keep passing it to others. My partner is a surgeon and microbiologist that is working on it as we speak. Not enough is known to be sure of re-infection time tables.
There were cases in different countries where patients who had been discharged and considered cured , came down with it again a couple of weeks later… Some specialists say it might be like the flu, never disappearing, you can always catch it, even if you’ve already had it …. They are already talking about a seconf wave later this year, starting next Autumn…. Plus, the European virus seems to be sort of a mutation from the Asian one.. Different strands…
Nobody knows…
Thanks for your interesting replies. I appreciate it!
@ ANG-please thank your partner for me for truly doing God’s work.
Some doctors, including Fauci, believe that you are likely immune to COVID-19 once you have it, but that some hospitals have been declaring people recovered when they are not. There’s some research indicating that the disease can affect a person (from infection to recovery) for 37 days rather than the two-week period that’s been plastered everywhere.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-can-live-in-your-body-for-up-to-37-days-according-to-new-study/
There is speculation that the “reinfection” of some patients who were released from hospital were never completely free of the virus (false negative), or may not have had it in the first place (false positive). The tests are quite new, so mistakes are inevitable.
The take home message is just stay safe, and protect those in society who are at serious risk from this virus.
it is unlikely you can get it “again and again” – the few reports of those who thought they were fully recovered and got it again are probably relapses because they hadn’t really fully recovered (I say this because the relapse occurred within a couple weeks of recovery). We won’t know for some time what the titer of antibodies is that falls below the protective level and to be able to be re-infected (for example, tetanus vaccine booster schedule is every 10 years, this could be a much shorter period of protection or much longer – we don’t have the data to say yet)
Once you get this strand you are considered immune, you don’t get reinfected. I work for infectious disease specialists and this is a recent proven development.
There is a guy in Japan that had it twice, it was confirmed by medical doctors.
it was not confirmed as reinfection and is, as described in multiple other replies, most likely a relapse because he wasn’t fully recovered
But what about cases in Japan and recently in Italy with reinfections?
Those have been concluded that the patient never actually recovered. The virus can remain in the system even after symptoms dissipate.
Most of what I read about that sounded like they weren’t fully recovered.
I’ve seen examples of several people who think they are recovering, and then worsen. It’s so scary.
A doc on TV the other day said the immunity could be short-lived though. They are still doing research. Also, there is more than one strain of Covid-19. You could catch both no?
I honestly don’t know. I’m just relaying what I’ve been told by experts I’m in contact with for work.
I honestly don’t know. I’m just relaying what I’ve been told by experts I’m in contact with for work.
K, that’s not what the CDC is saying. See below for an excerpt from a recent news report.
I really wish everyone would take the time to research before spreading random info that could be misleading or completely false. Not helping.
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According to one study, people with mild infections can test positive for the virus by throat swabs “for days and even weeks after their illness”.
But, that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible to contract the disease again, especially in those who are immunocompromised.
“The immune response to Covid-19 is not yet understood,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains. “Patients with MERS-CoV infection are unlikely to be reinfected shortly after they recover, but it is not yet known whether similar immune protection will be observed for patients with Covid-19.”
While further studies are needed to understand whether it is possible for an individual to be reinfected with new coronavirus, experts recommend those who have been infected follow the hygiene steps outlined by CDC, which include staying away from people who are sick, frequently washing hands, and covering coughs and sneezes.
According to Li QinGyuan, director of pneumonia prevention and treatment at China Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, those who have been infected with Covid-19 develop a protective antibody – but it isn’t clear how long the protection lasts.
“However, in certain individuals, the antibody cannot last that long,” Li told USAToday. “For many patients who have been cured, there is a likelihood of relapse.”
These quotes are from an article in the Independent three days ago.
No one should listen to (or share) random unproven anecdotes online for health care.
A majority of medical and science professionals scoff at the CDC. I work in a lab full of infectious disease scientists and doctors, I’m simply relaying the most recent findings not copy and pasting online articles. This is not spreading false information. Everyday new things are being learned and what I wrote above is an up to date analysis which a majority of researchers are agreeing with.
Thank you, Elizabeth. I”ll take quoted cited material over the hearsay of some nebulous scientist and doctor coworkers. This especially from someone who admitted they are just spreading what they heard from others with nothing to back it up. Which it what prompted your informed response. Too, look at where scoffing at the CDC has gotten us.
K what type of infectious disease studies do you work on?
This is not true. There is no guarantee of being suddenly “immune” after contracting this.
The virus trans-mutates as is spreads through the population and becomes, for lack of a better word, different. That’s why a vaccine is so difficult to develop, it’s changing as it infects more people.
There has been no evidence of this virus mutating in any significant or unexpected ways, as it’s already found a very efficient mechanism of spreading.
The virus in Europe is slightly different and more aggressive than the one in Asia…
You can never get the same cold twice. Mutations occur, even subtle ones, that’s why you can get it again. Everyone I know, that deals with CDC or is working directly with this virus, is afraid of the mutations with this Coronavirus. The mutations can be stronger or weaker depending on how it mutates. Oddly, most viruses want to keep living so the really deadly viruses die out quickly by killing their host and themselves. The more deadly mutations can sweep through with horrible consequences but those strains tend to die out quickly, leaving a wake of destruction behind them (Influenza 1918). Most viruses like to live to keep living.
That’s what WHO does with the yearly flu shot. The experts who deal with Influenza are generating an educated guess on how last years influenza virus may mutate the next year and hopefully they’ll guess right. Some years the guess is better than others (this year it was a 40%-60% success rate on the mutation) that’s why it’s important to get the shot because even if the success rate is lower, like this year, you still have some immunity to it, which will lesson your symptoms even if you get it.
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I’m imagining this will be similar, if they are able to develop some sort of shot or vaccine. It will prevent some and lessen others. Hopefully between that and figuring out some treatments, it will be enough to keep it at bay and not shut the whole world down.
Apparently they never developed vaccines for SARS or MERS… hopefully they can for this 😬
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