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madguy30 said:
A little surprised that this hasn't popped up today as it seems like bad news but could actually be positive if the 'reinfection' is found to come with no symptoms/effects. What I'd like to know is how contagious someone is if this happens.

Key part from the article:

Although the 33-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 a second time, multiple experts have pointed out that he showed no symptoms — which may be good news. “This is no cause for alarm — this is a textbook example of how immunity should work,” tweeted professor Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at the Yale School of Medicine. “While immunity was not enough to block reinfection, it protected the person from disease.”

Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, agreed. “Immunity is protecting your own body from having severe disease the second time around,” tweeted Rajkumar. “The immune system is primed and better prepared. That’s immunity.”

www.yahoo.com

COVID-19 reinfection case 'no cause for alarm,' experts say

As researchers from the University of Hong Kong report the first case of COVID-19 reinfection, here are three reasons you shouldn't panic.
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MPR was trying real hard to make it a negative along with the plasma treatment. They really have a hard time being positive about any improvements to the Covid situation.
 
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NWICY said:
MPR was trying real hard to make it a negative along with the plasma treatment. They really have a hard time being positive about any improvements to the Covid situation.
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The plasma treatment thing is weird...it's an old treatment and they've been using that for Covid since...April? And there's folks that think it's new.
 
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madguy30 said:
The plasma treatment thing is weird...it's an old treatment and they've been using that for Covid since...April? And there's folks that think it's new.
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I will admit, I had heard a little about them thinking about using it, and that was from people who gave blood and were told this. I have not really anything through the media about it. It seems that love reported about the the cases and deaths and then if a possible vaccine comes up they focus on when it may be available or go with it has a very low effective rate of 30-50%. If we could get a vaccine with even a third effectiveness. Even covering a third of the people on top of those who have had it and it would slow the virus up hard.
 
From CNBC article this morning

In late June, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned members of Congress that the U.S. might report more than 100,000 daily new cases of the virus “if this does not turn around.”

But months later, Fauci’s worst fears have not come to pass as daily new cases have steadily fallen across much of the U.S. over the past month. While testing has declined in recent weeks, the number of new cases is falling faster than testing rates, indicating that at least some of the drop is real.

Here is the entire article, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/new-cases-of-the-coronavirus-are-falling-in-most-of-the-us.html
 
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kcbob79clone said:
From CNBC article this morning

In late June, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned members of Congress that the U.S. might report more than 100,000 daily new cases of the virus “if this does not turn around.”

But months later, Fauci’s worst fears have not come to pass as daily new cases have steadily fallen across much of the U.S. over the past month. While testing has declined in recent weeks, the number of new cases is falling faster than testing rates, indicating that at least some of the drop is real.

Here is the entire article, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/new-cases-of-the-coronavirus-are-falling-in-most-of-the-us.html
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One thing is, is that I have a hard time believing that enough people have bought in to mitigation efforts for cases to fall that much, but on the other hand cases rising again around the world doesn't get me in a place where I think it's waning off or anything.

The fall will be interesting as we spend more time inside.
 
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Wife told me last night that the local school sent a kid home what may have been exposed. The parent of another family (both families apparently live together) got a positive notification yesterday. He test last tuesday. That is even slower than I had heard of recent.
 
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CloneLawman said:
I guess it depends on the testing. When I tested through TestIowa, I had a test result the next day. And I keep getting follow up e-mails, so I can test whenever I want, even though I am claiming no underlying condition, no symptoms, and no known exposures. Perhaps it is not so in other portions of the state.

What's the positive news here, BCC- that the dude was positive for testing?
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Nothing real positive. More in relation (thought it was in this thread) where we explaining how using the lazy approach to get percent testing positive doesn't work.
 
kcbob79clone said:
Colorado's cases fall for 4th straight week

www.denverpost.com

Colorado’s new coronavirus cases fall for a fourth week, putting state in “good but uncertain” place

The state department acknowledged that cases and new hospitalizations are down, but cautioned that numbers will vary as the pandemic continues. State officials have urged caution as students return to school and families plan Labor Day…
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I'm surprised CO's numbers really haven't gotten crazy the whole time. The front range is pretty packed and people have been out and about all along.

It's good, just surprising. Perhaps the ability to keep busy outdoors helped.
 
BCClone said:
Nothing real positive. More in relation (thought it was in this thread) where we explaining how using the lazy approach to get percent testing positive doesn't work.
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That was in one of the B1G/covid threads iirc.

It's good information to know though.

Maybe I should have named this thread 'informative but not meltdown worthy Covid news'.
 
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madguy30 said:
One thing is, is that I have a hard time believing that enough people have bought in to mitigation efforts for cases to fall that much, but on the other hand cases rising again around the world doesn't get me in a place where I think it's waning off or anything.

The fall will be interesting as we spend more time inside.
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If you start ignoring "positive cases" and only pay attention to hospitalization/ICU and death rates, you'll have a much clearer picture of how the virus is spreading.
 
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isutrevman said:
If you start ignoring "positive cases" and only pay attention to hospitalization/ICU and death rates, you'll have a much clearer picture of how the virus is spreading.
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I pay attention to both to get a clear picture.

I'd like a super clearer picture of how many have had it via these T-Cell tests and hope that gets going soonish.
 
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madguy30 said:
I pay attention to both to get a clear picture.

I'd like a super clearer picture of how many have had it via these T-Cell tests and hope that gets going soonish.
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I'd really like to find the weekly raw data for cases, hospital stays, ICU stays, deaths and chart them on the same graph. The CDC has weekly deaths but all the others that I can find are by state and I want to see this chart, but not enough to total 50 states worth.
 
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