Re: Lt. General Thomas McInerney: Covid19 was a biological attack
I just have a comment to make on something you said in that linked thread - didn't want to necro-post there, so it goes here instead
This is the second time I have seen you say this and it is simply not true. COVID reinfection happens.
In a study about 10 million residents in Wuhan, China, published in Nature, only 0.3% were reinfected.
"Of the 34,424 participants with a history of COVID-19, 107 tested positive again, giving a repositive rate of 0.310%" [..] "Results of virus culturing and contract tracing found no evidence that repositive cases in recovered COVID-19 patients were infectious, which is consistent with evidence from other sources."
Source: Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China.
Reinfection doesn't seem so dangerous to me according to this source.
A crucial point here surely is that if 34,424 people had Covid, and 107 later tested positive again... this does not mean that 0.31% of people who have Covid are likely to be reinfected.
The reason being that we don't know how many of the 34,424 initial people were subsequently exposed to the virus again. If say only 1070 of them were exposed again, then the reinfection rate is 10%. If 107 of them were exposed again, then the reinfection rate is 100%.
Unless I'm misreading the paper, which I might be, but that is how it reads to me.