If people were being re infected, then vaccination might be even less effective than getting the illness to create immunity because the immune response to being inoculated with the dead virus is not as powerful as having a full blown case of the virus.
And in fact, it might cause us to wonder if people are coming down with coronavirus again, if being inoculated with the dead virus (vaccine shot) might actually cause them to get it(doubtful). If people are coming down with it again, and all the live virus eradicated by the immune response did some lay dormant and came back out? Was it from re exposure from the outside? Which would be strange, if they were gushing out enough COVID-19 antibodies to completely kill all the live virus a couple of weeks earlier, how would a dormant form or new exposure not be crushed pretty quickly?
To fully recover means they were loaded with the antibodies that defeated the active and well advanced virus, that at one point was winning the battle over their bodies vs their immune system. The immune system sent massive antibody reinforcements that specifically targeted and obliterated that virus. Those reinforcements continue to patrol the patients bloodstream for a very long time after the virus is gone, so if it shows up again months later, it gets obliterated before it can multiply like it did the first time.
The only possibility is if the recovered patient was exposed to a mutated form of the Coronavirus that was so different than the first one, that the specific antibodies for the first one did not recognize the mutated version or the 2nd one. Wow, that would be a fast mutation and it would also mean 1 vaccine would only protect from 1 strain of this virus, not others. I am not reading anything about there being 2 strains out there currently of this version of the virus and that it mutates 8 to 10 times SLOWER than most flu virus's.
So that seems very unlikely based on the science and medical experts almost all telling us they believe that getting COVID-19 provides protection from getting it again. Not 100% but extremely high odds. "willing to bet anything" odds from the authority below.
However, this a new virus and we can't say anything for absolute certainty so stories of something really, really bad happening can get traction they ordinarily would not be able to generate.
For this to be anything more than isolated, would require this virus and our immune systems to act completely different than what we currently understand. Do we go with what we understand clearly or with what we don't?
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