Catch Coronavirus Twice

[ClimbDad]

A friend of mine is an emergency doctor. She got Covid19 at the end of March, recovered after two weeks and went back to work. She came down with symptoms again on Friday and was confirmed positive today.

Opinion seems divided on reinfection. Has anyone else heard of this or experienced it themselves?

She was lucky to be tested end of March as at that time you only got tested if admitted to hospital.Staff here with symptoms couldn't get tested that early

Good point - if she got tested in March, that defiinitely wasn't the norm for everyone!

Well I'm.pretty convinced ive had it twice. Either that, or I had it a long time with flare ups and 2 particularly bad ones.

I was ill in mid March and again mid April. Pretty similar symptoms. Cough went from March to end April. I tested positive in April.

The test picks up the viral nucleid acid (RNA) and can therefore detect the presence of both live and dead virus. Some hospitals are reducing their testing of other 'routine' respiratory viruses to focus resources on Coronavirus. It could therefore be that your friend tested positive in March, recovered and now has another virus (not tested for) but the covid test is still picking up dead virus from the infection in March? Or as previous posters have said, it never truly went away?

An old colleague of mine (paramedic) has tested positive twice, he doesn't know if he was negative at any point in between but didn't have symptoms between the two tests
Another friend tested positive with 4 weeks in between tests

Hope you feel better @HeadacheAgainToday

Thanks for the answers. Looks like it’s too early to say whether it’s long infections or another bout. Wish we had more information on this thing.

I have had chicken pox twice, the rubella jab never took despite having three after children, just the luck of the draw perhaps.

Are these all women as on lungs thread re period cycles??
Wondering if womens hormones beat it down but it resurges maybe during the oestrogen bit.
Progesterone dampens immune response??

Dd2 had something end of feb. Then i had chills dd1 a sore throat. Then over 28 days after sh e was ill dp and i got sore throat and cough. And dd1 a new cough but our only outside contact was a food delivery.

Other people being frontline co uld easily have caught it again if it's possible.
But also different strains someone had 2 different strains.

But if wevshed it for months then anyone who is only and dies from something else will seem to have died from covid because when tested they are still positive.
Also if indeed hcp are actually catching either different strains or same one twice then clearly we need to sort ppe as it's a huge risk to vulnerable staff members. Plus these hcp will have been contsgious twice for a few days before symptoms how many colleagues and patients have caught it.

The 7 days contagious is not what who says i think. Because in fact many severe deteriorate 7-10+ days