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by franga2000 2296 days ago
There have been at least two cases of a second infection, and that's information from a week ago. I don't know what the consensus is, but immunity is not something we should count on.
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These are the same two cases that people have been mentioning for weeks, which have been reported in a chaotic period at the beginning of an outbreak. All other signs point to immunity for at least a couple of months, likely even longer.
more than 80k confirmed cases world wide, and two with a secondary infection.
> more than 80k confirmed cases world wide, and two with a secondary infection.

We should talk about the test error intervals.

With that small amount of secondary cases, maybe it was a false positive the first time. No procedure is 100% failsafe and this is a price that we pay for being in the real world. Maybe the test was not applied correctly, was not stored accurately or was triggered by some artifact.