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by chrisco255 2138 days ago
The only reason people are testing positive again after having Covid and healing from it is because the test is very poor at distinguishing between various coronaviruses, the vast majority of which are harmless and sometimes cause the common cold. There is a big false positive rate as a result.
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Could you link to studies that support this point of view, if you have any? What are your sources?
>Post your link saying that people can be re-infected.
Multiple cases described. You're being lazy as there is consensus that immunity if present is fickle.

A well documented one: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200720/Doctor-in-Israel-...

News medical.dot net. That's not a legit site. Was hoping for a PubMed article.

I looked at the sources for that article you posted and not one of them supported your claim. Not one. I even went several articles in because news medical dot net was using itself as a source.

There's no consensus at all, even remotely. I have no idea where you got that other than fear based news reporting.

I'm not going explain immunology to you but 99.9999% of viruses on the planet build long-term immunity if you survive. Coronavirus is the same way.

To put it another way..vaccine immunity operates the same way as infectious immunity.... do you think they are going to invest billions of dollars into a vaccine if immunity only lasts for a few months?

No idea what that is supposed to tell me, to be honest.