Anyone on this board or know of anyone who has personally caught Covid twice

For a serious answer, my cousin says he has had it twice (spring and fall). Said tested positive both times. Lost taste/smell both times. First go was about 14 days of symptoms, second about 7-8. Said first bout was definitely worse than second.

Jetpilot86?

Classmate from A&M got it a second time last week. First time, early March, had her in the hospital for supplemental O2 and took her close to 4 months to be back to breathing normally. Second time she was symptom free in 6 days.

yes

I had my annual checkup with my primary care Doctor last week, and she said she has a couple of patients on their third go round. March, July, and now.

where'd this 200 number come from?

and why would reinfection be necessarily remarkable?

well I know a Houston doctor who diagnosed a reinfection last week and it wasn't a big deal and wasn't reported to the media as far as I know

first case was in NY in March, second one local

nine months of apparent immunity sounds about right

Reinfection will happen, I just wonder if there's a couple other things going on in some of these cases reported here. These two are the most likely:
1. False positives (Nick Saban)
2. People can continue testing positive for months after initial infection:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0814-updated-isolation-guidance.html#:~:text=On%20August%203%2C%202020,be%20infectious%20to%20others.

Redstone said:

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Lots of people have. Been reading about them for quite a while - certainly for longer, and more cases, than anyone else on this board.

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I know someone who has had it twice. First time just lost taste/smell. Unsure of symptoms 2nd time around.

Reading about it on some of the official websites and studies, it seems to be unlikely, but not impossible.

From what I understand, the official proven reinfections are ones that are limited to mostly heavy travelers that could prove through blood tests that it was different genetic strains. There's not many of those.

There are some places counting reinfections as a known positive, known negative, known positive test with at least a month fully symptom free in between, but that also seems like a lot of data that people wouldn't have.

I wouldn't necessarily be surprised to find out COVID-19 cells are getting activated during a common cold which is why people are testing positive again. I've been sick three times so far this year testing negative for COVID or tested negative for antibodies (and not spreading COVID to close contacts afterwards which makes me believe the tests) so other bugs are out there. I don't think we'll know for awhile if reinfection ends up being prevalent.

treyyates said:

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Anyone on this board or know of anyone who has personally caught Covid twice

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Yes.