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by pvarangot 1629 days ago
Nah a lot of Delta cases where reinfections, I can't believe we are still arguing about wether COVID mutations can reinfect only because of McCullough.

Of course if you only look at the "variants of concern" that the media talks about you basically have to wait years until you have like 4 or 5 variants that went all around the world to see how common it is for it to mutate in a way that can reinfect, but considering Delta reinfections where common and now Omicron is also reinfecting everyone, I would just not loose any more time listening to McCullough. Note he says its _impossible_, not rare or weird or strange, _impossible_. He actually called bullshit on Rogan because Rogan said his friend got it twice because he got Delta and the first variant.

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> Nah a lot of Delta cases where reinfections,

That is an amazing fact if true and you should alert the CDC immediately with your evidence.

The first serious reinfection study I saw for Delta was the NHS study, with like 350+ reinfections over more than 35000 health workers. I think the chances for a case on that study to be a reinfection was something like 1.2% to 1.5%

I consider that "a lot" special when compared to McCulloughs prediction of 0.0% because reinfection was impossible.