>>(It went on that Brazil was thought to be the herd immunity example as 75% of people caught it first time round
What on earth were you reading?
Brazil has a population of 220m. Officially 8m people have had COVID-19, so that's about 4%.
Now, Brazilian figures are not the greatest, but even so from 4% to 75% is one hell of a very unlikely jump.
As for re-infection then they have one that they say is confirmed and 58 suspected. The one confirmed is a middle aged health exec who purportedly caught it in May or so. She then caught the [not very] 'new' variant in October. As I understand she was diagnosed with the virus in May, *not* tested and she recovered easily having taken prednisone. I take prednisone, sounds like b******* to me
The current publicity is a panic without evidence because there is a fear that there is something different about the variant. Mostly because a scientist said that "it is possible that...". Which of course it is. Similarly, "it is possible that" the lizard-people exist, Smurf has a brain and aliens are amongst us.
It doesn't mean that it is, or even that there is any evidence that it is.
I doubt it. It's been in the country for 3 months and Brazil's problems are down to their covid-denying President who has about the same amount of brainpower and situational as a blue moron.
And *AGAIN* they say that there is no evidence that it is any more dangerous.
Scientists keep saying things like, we need to research to see, it is possible that, it could cause, etc. etc. and the worthless media immediately leap on it and wreak chaos amongst those who don't read between the lines.
That said, I don't think anybody believes that you will get life time immunity from a previous infection and the period of time that you are "safe" will vary between people.
It is notable that *ALL* variants have been detected in places where they do a great deal of analysis, there are almost certainly a gazillion other variants around that haven't been detected yet and there will continue to be more and more as long as the virus is this active.
As vaccination slows down the incidence, then it will also slow down the potential for mutation.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Fri 15 Jan 21 at 13:14
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