GeneticsGuy

Any company with "secret" metrics on how they score you you should never work for. If they give you clear, understandable objectives, great. If they rank you and not even give a real explanation as to how, get out of that company. That's insane.

It's forever, or more accurately, at least many decades against this strand, but mutations can occur that can make it unique enough for reinfection. It's worth noting that this virus is fairly similar to other single stranded RNA viruses where a single vaccine provides lifelong immunity (essentially the same thing as recovering from the infection). Unlike say, the flu, which has a rather large and complex genome made of 8 different RNA strands, capable of providing the genetic diversity to easier mutate into evasive strands, there is less potential here.

Typically reinfection is extremely rare. News reports that people possibly could get reinfected immediately after recovery is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the immune system works. There could be no recovery if reinfection was so easy.

Take solace in knowing that any reports of reinfection this early are far more likely wrong than anything. The bigger question is how the virus will appear a year from now, which can be unpredictable with novel strains, but again, this isn't totally uncharted territory here. We have experience with similar viruses and their behavior. So, we'll see.

I say this all as a biologist who once upon a time used to work in virology.

He was also more clever in hiding how he was killing people back in the day. For example, he killed nearly 3 million Ukrainians. Well, unlike Germans who were basically rounding people up for mass-execution, Stalin just blockaded the country and forced a pro-longed famine on the people and basically all he would say is that these people were dying from famine, not acknowledging the man-made nature of it, allowing him to kill off millions essentially unnoticed.

This comment is very wise and literally the exact opposite of what is occurring in political discourse these days... too bad.

Holy F, that's just wrong. 42k after 11 years?