Dallas Woman Tests Positive for Coronavirus Again After 4 Months: 'I Was Floored'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A woman in Dallas is fighting her second battle against the coronavirus

Meredith McKee first tested positive for the potentially deadly virus in February, diagnosed after feeling "clear and obvious" symptoms, she told NBC 5.

"I had a dry cough like you would not believe. It would not stop,” McKee recalled, explaining that she managed to fight off the first bout of the virus from home.

She even donated some of her plasma after testing positive for antibodies.

"I felt great finally [doing] something good coming out of the hell that I’ve been through because I'm going to help up to eight people with this plasma,” she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/dallas-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-again-after-4-months-i-was-floored/ar-BB15Cenf?li=BBnb7Kz

So much for acquired immunity.

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[Blues Heron]

2. they think its a resurgence

In McKee's case, her doctors believe that the virus simply went dormant after her first bout of illness, a theory backed by Dr. Benjamin Neuman, a virologist and the head of the biology department at Texas A&M University-Texarkana.

Neuman told Healthline that he believes a second positive test is not necessarily a reactivation of the virus but rather a resurgence.

[soothsayer]

3. Have read maybe these resurgent folks don't spread it

Wonder whether that’s still the thinking.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. Well that's scary

If we don’t clear it, it’s a chronic disease

[Blue_true]

7. Good point. nt

[LisaL]

5. But in her case, it appears she is again having symptoms of it.

I am also not sure what is the difference between reactivation and resurgence?

[Blues Heron]

6. same thing, the concern was reinfection vs. reactivation/relapse

[Blue_true]

8. The belief is that a second infection isn't what sent her back to the hospital,

she simply was not clear of the virus the after the first hospitalization.

A capacity to get re-infected, even after developing antibodies what what would be scary. In her case, maybe Doctors should have ordered blood tests or something that would reveal the presence of virus fragments or live virus over a concentration per ml of blood that would signal that she was not out of the woods and needed to stay in the hospital.