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Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

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Re: Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

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This sounds apocryphal. Second infections are incredibly rare , let alone three in twelve months. Like clockwork, every discussion of this matter on a discussion board brings out at least one person claiming to know people who have been re-infected, yet the number of confirmed examples is measured in the low hundreds, worldwide.

I think it’s low because in the beginning no one could get tested for COVID. I had an illness back in March 2020 that knocked me out for 2 weeks. Could have been COVID but my state had 0 available test kits so no one can confirm it. February 2021, I’m I’ll again for 2 week. This time it’s confirmed COVID. If we expect immunity to only last about 12 months, then it could have been reinfection especially considering by…

1) You're illustrating my point - you didn't have a first test, and are assuming it was Covid. It probably wasn't.

2) We don't "expect immunity to only last about 12 months". It's been about 12 months since the first cases were confirmed, so that's as far as we can say.

Re: Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19

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Sometimes I think I'm living in a parallel universe. I know people who travel regularly and no one says anything to them. No quarantine, nothing. Most people on the streets here in Germany give zero fucks, groups of 5-10, no masks (even though there's a curfew between 10pm-5am due to an increase in cases). And I traveled all the way from Moldova to Germany by car. No one, and I mean no one ever asked for a Covid test…

When was that? I traveled in the opposite direction (more or less: Vienna to Bucarest) more than 3 months ago and wasn't asked either, but on the Hungary-Romania border, they put me in a tiny room (1/3 shipping container or so) with ca. 10 people and gave me quarantine papers. They didn't check bags. I'm pretty sure they'd check for a test or vaccination now on the way back, I'm not eager to find out and will stay he…

That tiny room was probably the most risky thing you did.
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