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by service_bus 2272 days ago
There is no evidence yet that immunity is even possible.

Until we know that, taking away healthcare workers, healthcare resources, and having volunteers willing to kill themselves is foolish, at best.

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In macaques they found reinfection was not possible.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1

The news stories about reinfection are suspect because there's a high false positive and false negative rate to the tests.

It's the latest spin on the "herd immunity" meme.