I’m assuming because you are sure having it once will give you some immunity? It’s really unclear if that is true and I respectfully disagree with those who same it is more likely than not.
We don't "know" that infection confers any sort of lasting immunity, but there's zero reason to believe it doesn't give you immunity at least for a few years.
This is all rooted in the media narrative trying to scare people to stay at home "you could catch it over and over again". It's not science, and it's counter productive.
Well, it's not science, but it may be productive. A lot of people will hear "it's not so bad" and "healthy people should get it and get over it", and go out and make others sick (including people that could die or be hospitalized).
It's not science, it's crowd control. People don't exercise good judgement reliably, so that might be counterproductive.
Stop spreading misinformation, there were studies in South Korea that say you won't reinfect after you get it. That's why the strong and healthy can help by self-infecting.
Not exactly.
Some hundreds of patients were thought to have gotten rid of the virus during hospital stay and treatment and sent home after confirming through RT-PCR tests. But they were found to be covid+ve afterwards. Studies indicated that the +ve tests were 'likely' from the genetic material that lingered from the first infection and not from re-infection.
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-reinfections-were-fa...
However, they do not declare that you cannot get re-infected two months down the line or two years down the line. We don't have that information about immunity yet.
lostapathy|5 years ago
This is all rooted in the media narrative trying to scare people to stay at home "you could catch it over and over again". It's not science, and it's counter productive.
zbentley|5 years ago
It's not science, it's crowd control. People don't exercise good judgement reliably, so that might be counterproductive.
svd4anything|5 years ago
http://www.columbia.edu/~jls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf
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