Investigator error: Corona Impossible Infection

There is increasing evidence that a new infection with Sars-CoV-2 after surviving Covid-19 disease is not possible at least for a certain period of time. Until recently, however, there were reports from South Korea, among others, reporting secondary infections. Now the researchers admitted: the results are wrong, the scientists have corrected the study and they are sure: one The second infection with Sars-CoV-2 is not possible immediately after the first infection.. But that doesn’t have to be the case forever.

South Korean researchers were wrong: a double infection is not possible

There were 277 cases in South Korea alone with suspected second infection with the new coronavirus after recently recovering from Covid-19 disease. Now it’s clear: South Korean researchers were wrong, and this confirms what virologist Christian Drosten also recently insisted: after being infected with the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, antibodies form, in most cases, that the patient first once immune to a new infection. For at least two years, Drosten predicts.

South Korean scientists are now getting on this train after thinking that the virus could “reactivate” in the body. A kind of “outbreak” of the infection had shown test results in all 277 patients.

The reason would be an uncontrolled mutation of the virus. The new type of coronavirus has already mutated, but the mutations do not necessarily have to do any harm or be so huge that the antibodies formed can no longer do anything. In addition, genetic analyzes of the virus were performed in South Korea and no significant changes were found.

Instead, there were measurement errors in relapse patients, which have now been admitted, researchers at the South Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, as reported by “Sky News.”

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Coronaviruses do not penetrate the nucleus of the host cell: reactivation is impossible

Instead, it is “impossible” for Sars-CoV-2 to be reactivated in the human body. That is in the nature of corona viruses. Unlike viruses like HIV and chickenpox (a form of herpes virus), these penetrate the nucleus of human cells and can rest there for years until activated, coronaviruses would not get there.

“This means that it does not cause chronic infection or relapse,” Dr. Oh Myoung-don, the head of the CDC committee, told Sky News. Consequently, patients are unlikely to relapse.

But: it is not immune forever

But that does not mean that you are now immune forever. Because it may still happen that the new type of corona virus continues to mutate and therefore possibly becomes “weaker” but possibly also becomes more aggressive, and that the antibodies formed can no longer cope as well. Therefore, it occurs regularly with the flu virus, which changes so fast that new infections are always possible. In this case, the vaccine should be checked over and over again.

With the new corona virus, researchers currently expect immunity from several months to a few years.

So it’s very likely immune after coronavirus infection. This confirms the previous assumptions. Christian Drosten had already maintained some immunity after Covid disease 19. The World Health Organization (WHO) had recently commented critically, but also to examine certificates of immunity after coronavirus infection, as suggested by the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn. What else is happening in terms of coronavirus? Take a look at our topic page.