re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Well, they certainly didn't think it through. The offshoot of their decision to lock down campus is the kids are migrating off campus to have some normality and some social interaction. They shut down the bars for 14 days, so there are already rumors of the frats renting space off campus to have gatherings and parties. Kids can't eat in the dining halls or Greek houses and are already sick of that grab-n-go shite so they are eating off campus in restaurants. The results are mama and daddy are spending money on a dining plan that the kids can't/won't use and the kids are being driven off campus into the community where the rules are up to them and the general public and we all know how hit and miss that is. The end result is you are in all probability increasing the occurance of the virus both in the community and on campus due to the increased interaction with the population at large.

I fear for those parents that sent students to college. Once they contract the virus, they'll bring it home. My son is visiting his girlfriend in Knoxville this week and he'll probably contaminate everyone again, once he returns home. I still have SARS-covid-2 antibodies from last month but no one knows if I have immunity.

Rinse, wash, repeat

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Best guess is you are immune for about 3 months.

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Nah. The 3 month "guess" was based on antibodies. They've now concluded that your memory T-cells will most likely make you immune for years, at least.

Antibodies degrade over time, and their presence doesn’t guarantee protection, but previous studies have shown that people who contracted SARS, another coronavirus disease that resulted in the 2003 epidemic, still had antibodies in their blood two to three years after recovery. Of course we don’t know yet whether SARS-CoV-2 will be similar.

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Among 176 patients who had had severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), SARS-specific antibodies were maintained for an average of 2 years, and significant reduction of immunoglobulin G–positive percentage and titers occurred in the third year. Thus, SARS patients might be susceptible to reinfection >3 years after initial exposure.

Our results provide strong evidence that SARS-CoV antibodies are reduced >3 years after the symptom onset. Because antibodies play an important role in protective immunity against SARS-CoV (15), the findings from this study will have important implications with regard to assessing risk for reinfection among previously exposed populations (e.g., hospital staff) and evaluating the duration of antibody-mediated immunity that any candidate vaccine could provide.

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Duration of Antibody Responses after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

What am I looking at there ?

I had high fever , aches etc on August 6th -10th. Tested negative for flu and corona . Doctor said he thinks it was a false negative . I go for yearly physical Sept 8th and would like to see if I had antibodies but have heard that it may take more than a month . Just curious . Not sure what that chart is for

Thanks

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BREAKING: Idaho’s House of Representatives Votes to End Coronavirus Emergency EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

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LINK

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I've seen a couple of those studies claiming very brief immunity like that but I don't buy it. Occurrences of reinfection have been incredibly rare, and if people are only immune for a couple of months post-recovery then reinfections may not be widespread, but there would be a statistically significant number of them documented by now and there haven't been. In fact there have only been a couple documented worldwide out of literally millions of known infections and millions more presumed infections.

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I believe he was referring to was the person in Hong Kong, who is being reported as the first documented confirmed case of someone getting it for a second time in the world.

CDC guidelines now say those exposed to coronavirus may not need testing if asymptomatic

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The site now says: “If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with a COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or State or local public health officials recommend you take one.”

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