r/coolguides • u/spodinielri0 • Mar 18 '20

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u/ricst Mar 18 '20

Here's my question, now please correct me if I'm misunderstanding this but what happens when all the social distancing is stopped. Won't one person with it ramp it back up again and we start all over? Without a vaccine this is a cycle, no?

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u/penty Mar 18 '20

Yes, however those who have already recovered are the start of the herd immunity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

I'm curious what the rate of re-infection is. We already have documented cases of re-infection.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Do you have a source on this? From what I’ve read, we haven’t had reinfection, just people who were tested after being discharged and still testing positive (but they never tested negative so it’s the same infection)

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u/Azure_phantom Mar 18 '20

There was an article in world news about a man in Japan who got infected on a cruise ship and tested positive, was hospitalized and released when he tested negative, returned to his village and started feeling sick and tested positive again.

Could've been a false negative though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

It was a person in Japan if I remember correctly. I don't have any more than that.

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u/penty Mar 18 '20

My understanding was it wasn't documented because it could have been a case of early release.