MOSCOW — Russian doctors say they are treating a woman who may have contracted coronavirus for the second time after recovering from it.
The woman was discharged from a hospital in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude after receiving treatment for coronavirus and testing negative for it in early April. But two weeks later she started having respiratory symptoms again and tested positive for the virus for the second time.
She was readmitted to the hospital and is currently being treated, says its chief doctor Tatyana Symbelova.
“The question is whether it’s a re-infection, because 15-16 days passed between discharged and respiratory symptoms appearing, or the disease she had earlier coming back. It is not entirely clear for us at this point,” Symbelova says.
According to the World Health Organization, no studies have shown people who have recovered from the coronavirus are immune to becoming infected again.
Russia reported over 262,000 coronavirus cases on Friday and 2,418 deaths.
The same Russia with the outrageously low “official” death count?
That one?
Or the Russia that did extensive testing?
How inconvenient. Open a window.
Yes, we really just do not know much about this novel virus. Needs saying and repeating. There are so many assumptions based on other viruses we’re used to dealing with but this may not be similar. It may be possible to get it twice. It may be that having immunity built up after having gone through a round of devastating symptoms it is not a sure thing. Herd immunity may be a much longer and more involved process in society at large, if it exists at all. So much is unknown and thanks to the flunkies in this administration that don’t actually believe in science, we may never know as long as they are in charge here. For once, Russia scientists and doctors may be telling us the truth from their own observations, after all this isn’t Putin talking.
I do hope this doctor doesn’t take an accidental quick dive off a three story building however.
Putin says, every time a Russian opens a window, a doctor loses flight.
I think we all take in new information and try to fit it into what we are familiar with. Trump certainly didn’t help by calling it “just like the flu”. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when someone tried to explain:
What’s a pandemic
What makes this “novel” virus different than seasonal flu
Trump is uninformed because he lacks curiosity. Trump is uninformed because he’s only concerned with “me, me, me, and oh look me!”.