Friday, October 16, 2020

COVID19 Update - Day 220

US Tests: 114,465,571*
US Cases: 8,007,690*
US Deaths: 210,217*
Worldwide Cases: 39,266,777*
Worldwide Deaths: 1,103,415*

* - Numbers are a lower bound.  True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration

It just keeps getting worse.  Last week, we had the first confirmed case of #TrumpVirus reinfection in the U.S.:
Does immunity protect an individual from disease on reinfection? The answer is not necessarily, because patients from Nevada and Ecuador had worse disease outcomes at reinfection than at first infection. It is important to keep in mind that the reinfection cases in general are being picked up because of symptoms and are biased towards detection of symptomatic cases. Due to the paucity of broad testing and surveillance, we do not know how frequently reinfection occurs among individuals who recovered from their first infection.

I'm starting to believe the people who are saying that we'll never return to normal. 

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