Recurring infection

[EndlessWire]

I don't want to be accused of fearmongering. But, have you noticed the post in BN about the Japanese woman who tested positive again after being declared recovered? Here in California there was a news item that someone had gotten through quarantine, was released, and then came down with it. You know, they haven't gotten this quarantine business right.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Some viruses are never completely "cured"...

they just kind of hang around in your system.

[Mike 03]

2. Can a coronavirus become a dormant or retrovirus?

This is so far out of my sphere of knowledge.

Also, these folks who have recovered but then test positive: are they also contagious again?

Mononucleosis might be an example of a virus that never goes away. Also, doesn't Chicken Pox stick around in your cells forever, sometimes re-emerging as shingles when you're older?

[Voltaire2]

4. A virus doesn't become a retrovirus.

“In most viruses, DNA is transcribed into RNA, and then RNA is translated into protein. However, retroviruses function differently, as their RNA is reverse-transcribed into DNA, which is integrated into the host cell's genome (when it becomes a provirus), and then undergoes the usual transcription and translational processes to express the genes carried by the virus.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus

Covid-19 is a standard virus. A virus doesn’t become a retrovirus it starts out that way.

Dormancy is a quality of some viruses.

[Squinch]

3. My question is: is it still contagious?

[MFM008]

5. I remember

Decades ago i got sick with something..felt better
And seemed to get the same thing
10 days later.