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If you've had Covid can you get it again immediately?

Context: The in laws have the plague, FIL is the worst and getting the plasma treatment. MIL won't let him go to rehab because she's afraid he will get Covid. Is this a valid concern?

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7 minutes ago, Slache said:

If you've had Covid can you get it again immediately?

Context: The in laws have the plague, FIL is the worst and getting the plasma treatment. MIL won't let him go to rehab because she's afraid he will get Covid. Is this a valid concern?

There was one case in Melbourne where a person seemed to have been reinfected four weeks later but I don’t know if it was confirmed.  Is your FIL immune suppressed?  

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15 minutes ago, Ausmumof3 said:

There was one case in Melbourne where a person seemed to have been reinfected four weeks later but I don’t know if it was confirmed.  Is your FIL immune suppressed?  

I think so.

13 minutes ago, Ausmumof3 said:

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-tracker/
 

the closest reinfection on the BNO tracker is 10 days apart.  You’d have to be very unlucky though.

Ok. This is the 7 days after treatment. Thanks!

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7 minutes ago, Slache said:

I think so.

Ok. This is the 7 days after treatment. Thanks!

I think there’s slightly more concern around reinfection with immune suppressed because they’re less reliable at forming antibodies.  
I still think it would be pretty unlikely though.

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7 hours ago, MissLemon said:

A friend of mine and her family contracted covid on October 11. The family now has covid again, 2 months later.  

This makes me want to cry.

I think your FIL would likely be immune right now though.

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On the other hand, I have friends here who had it in March and are in a study at the teaching hospital. Most of them, including a friend who is in her late 70's,  still have a strong showing of antibodies. 

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7 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:

For the shorter term reinfections, are they confirmed with a genome test? The one I read about seemed to simply involve the virus lying dormant.

I don't know if they did a genome test. I don't know if Texas is tracking that sort of thing?  I know they did another covid test. So far, symptoms have been mild and limited. 

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56 minutes ago, MissLemon said:

I don't know if they did a genome test. I don't know if Texas is tracking that sort of thing?  I know they did another covid test. So far, symptoms have been mild and limited. 

Even if it’s a dormant infection flaring up again, that’s concerning.  

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