But the claim was that "You cannot catch COVID-19 twice. Period." We have studies showing that you CAN be infected more than once but it is usually mild:
But the claim was that "You cannot catch COVID-19 twice. Period." We have studies showing that you CAN be infected more than once but it is usually mild:
PCR tests can pick up anything if amplified too high, and also it picks up fragments of prior infection. "Primary infection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab. Reinfection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab obtained at least 90 days after the primary infection." BTW, it's a letter to the editor.
That's just the most recent study. Even the huge Israel study doesn't claim that unvaxxed can't get reinfected. We need to be very precise with our claims to avoid being discredited.
Bart - I do agree with you 100% on this point. But I find it incredible the amount of energy expended to make sure our тАЬIтАЩsтАЭ our dotted and тАЬTтАЩsтАЭ crossed. Meanwhile the President is STILL on TV claiming if you get the vaccine you canтАЩt spread Covid and everyone just shrugs their shoulders.
The fact that the CDC canтАЩt produce evidence of a person getting a confirmed second Covid case and transmitting it to someone is very telling to me.
Well I suppose that all 1,300 reinfected could potentially be false PCR positives but the 4 that were hospitalized with covid symptoms and a PCR positive would seem to qualify as valid reinfections.
I have little to no faith in anything the coming from the CDC. However in some of the foreign reports on the Omicron variant I think it has been noted that here have been people infected with Covid twice.
I used to have full faith in the CDC. Just two years ago it never would have dawned on me to doubt them.
Now? If they told me the sun is coming up in the East tomorrow morning, I would get up and double check. I wonder if they have any idea what they have burned down.
But the claim was that "You cannot catch COVID-19 twice. Period." We have studies showing that you CAN be infected more than once but it is usually mild:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2108120
PCR tests can pick up anything if amplified too high, and also it picks up fragments of prior infection. "Primary infection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab. Reinfection was defined as the first PCR-positive swab obtained at least 90 days after the primary infection." BTW, it's a letter to the editor.
That's just the most recent study. Even the huge Israel study doesn't claim that unvaxxed can't get reinfected. We need to be very precise with our claims to avoid being discredited.
Bart - I do agree with you 100% on this point. But I find it incredible the amount of energy expended to make sure our тАЬIтАЩsтАЭ our dotted and тАЬTтАЩsтАЭ crossed. Meanwhile the President is STILL on TV claiming if you get the vaccine you canтАЩt spread Covid and everyone just shrugs their shoulders.
The fact that the CDC canтАЩt produce evidence of a person getting a confirmed second Covid case and transmitting it to someone is very telling to me.
Peculiar phrasing you have there, so let me start with you: Define covid.
Well I suppose that all 1,300 reinfected could potentially be false PCR positives but the 4 that were hospitalized with covid symptoms and a PCR positive would seem to qualify as valid reinfections.
PCR test doesn't differentiate between covid or flu...McCullough said that in this interview. He addresses this topic twice...no reinfections.
If we use that logic then we would also have to accept that the vaccines are also 100% effective again infection. Everybody just had the flu.
That's a large leap.
I have little to no faith in anything the coming from the CDC. However in some of the foreign reports on the Omicron variant I think it has been noted that here have been people infected with Covid twice.
I used to have full faith in the CDC. Just two years ago it never would have dawned on me to doubt them.
Now? If they told me the sun is coming up in the East tomorrow morning, I would get up and double check. I wonder if they have any idea what they have burned down.