The more SARS-CoV-2 is exposed to human beings the more likely it will mutate. I think we have seen some of this already. The point is that the disease is deadly and ideology that embraces herd immunity only makes the virus stronger through mutation.
There is nothing scientists need to know about viruses and how they work. No one needs to prophesize about it.
...The time scale varies (click here) for different viruses; it may range from 8 hrs (e.g., poliovirus) to more than 72 hrs....
Viruses are opportunistic. They do not thrive alone, they have to have a host. Every 8 to 72 hours there is an opportunity to mutate and become stronger. The more exposure the virus has to it's host the more opportunity. The USA has a highly diversified genome that can teach the virus new tricks. Prevention will eliminate it from Earth. This will not disappear without a coordinated effort.
By Kelly Malcomb
Is it possible to have COVID-19 (click here) more than once within a short period of time? Two recent reports, one out of Hong Kong and one in a patient in Reno, Nevada, have many scratching their heads—and wondering what the cases mean for the future of the pandemic. While the cases are interesting, Michigan Medicine’s Adam Lauring, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology and infectious disease, says they aren’t cause for panic.
“Just because something happens, doesn’t mean it happens a lot,” he says. In fact, he explains, this could also occur just as frequently with other viruses without anyone noticing, because those viruses are not under the intense level of worldwide scrutiny that SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind COVID-19—currently is.
The Hong Kong case, which was summarized in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, was picked up during a routine screening at the Hong Kong border, and the man did not exhibit symptoms. The Nevada reinfection case report has not yet been peer reviewed.
Reinfection is a matter of the body’s immune response and the evolution of the virus itself, notes Lauring. If these patients’ initial immune responses to their first infection weren’t robust enough, they could be susceptible to getting infected again....
“Just because something happens, doesn’t mean it happens a lot,” he says. In fact, he explains, this could also occur just as frequently with other viruses without anyone noticing, because those viruses are not under the intense level of worldwide scrutiny that SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind COVID-19—currently is.
The Hong Kong case, which was summarized in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, was picked up during a routine screening at the Hong Kong border, and the man did not exhibit symptoms. The Nevada reinfection case report has not yet been peer reviewed.
Reinfection is a matter of the body’s immune response and the evolution of the virus itself, notes Lauring. If these patients’ initial immune responses to their first infection weren’t robust enough, they could be susceptible to getting infected again....
