Dear Lord, please guide anons son back to them safely, quickly, and unharmed. May you help to lead the rescuers on the fast path of locating him and may he stay safe and warm with your arms around him until then. Amen..
COVID-19 reportedly reinfecting some people in Colorado
DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Health Medical Center has discovered at least four people who appear to have been reinfected with the coronavirus, more than four months after contracting the respiratory disease the first time.
The patients all had fairly mild symptoms of the disease when they originally contracted it. They recovered and eventually tested negative for the virus. More than four months later – for one reason or another – they needed to get tested again, even though they showed no symptoms. All of their COVID-19 tests came back positive.
“It’s alarming in the sense that they can possibly propagate the infection,” said Denver Health infectious disease expert, Dr. Cory Hussain. “(This means) you’re probably not immune to begin with…and we don’t know if you’re infective or not. And there’s a good possibility you are.”
Denver Health has not reported the cases as an official reinfection, in part, because the patients’ first tests were not genetically mapped. That’s happened with a few coronavirus reinfections in Asia and one in Nevada.
“That’s not really a surprise to us,” said Dr. Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “If you think about most of the respiratory viruses, how many colds have you had in your lifetime? A lot. And often it can be the same virus that infects you.”
Barron, Hussain and many infectious disease experts now believe the immunity people who contract COVID-19 build up, wears off over time.
Researchers are also looking at the possibility that the coronavirus is mutating.
“Again, that would not be unexpected, Barron said. “Could it make the virus less intense? Certainly. Could it make it worse? Possibly.
This also has major implications for the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine. Doctors said it may end up being like the influenza vaccine, which is given annually and does not always offer complete protection from the virus.
“We don’t know how long the immune response is going to last,”Hussain said. “It’s going to take a while. We’re not going to flip and switch and COVID’s gone.”
https://kdvr.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-reportedly-reinfecting-some-people-in-colorado/
California health officials can keep their home addresses secret, governor says
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday allowed health officials to hide their addresses under a California state program designed to protect people from harassment and violence.
Newsom’s executive order permits the secretary of state to make the Safe at Home confidentiality program available to local health officers and other public health officials.
The order says those officials have been subjected to harassment and threats.
Some threats targeted their homes, “which threatens to chill the performance of their critical duties,” the governor’s order stated.
The order is designed “to protect local health officers and other public health officials on the front lines of the fight against the virus,” said a statement from the governor’s office.
A California community college instructor was arrested last month and charged with sending two dozen misogynistic and threatening letters to Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s top public health official.
Alan Viarengo, 55, of Gilroy, is charged with felony counts of stalking and threatening a public official.
He hasn’t entered a plea.
The Safe at Home program “provides asubstitute mailing address for victims and survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, human trafficking, elder/dependent adult abuse, as well as reproductive healthcare workers,” according to the statement.
Newsom’s order also contains a series of other actions related to the impact of COVID-19, including extending an authorization through next March 31 for local governments to halt evictions of commercial renters.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-24/health-officials-eligible-for-state-confidentiality-progam
First U.S. COVID-19 reinfection case identified in Nevada study
Thomson Reuters
DEENA BEASLEY
Aug 28th 2020 3:47PM
Aug 28 (Reuters) - Researchers for the first time have identified someone in the United States who was reinfected with the novel coronavirus, according to a study that has not yet been reviewed by outside experts.
The report, published online, describes a 25-year-old man living in Reno, Nevada, who tested positive for the virus in April after showing mild illness. He got sick again in late May and developed more severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Cases of presumed reinfection have cropped up in other parts of the world, but questions have arisen about testing accuracy.Earlier this week, University of Hong Kong researchers reported details of a 33-year-old man who had recovered in April from a severe case of COVID-19 and was diagnosed four months later with a different strain of the virus.
Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory said they were able to show through sophisticated testing that the virus associated with each instance of the Reno man's infection represented genetically different strains.
They emphasized that reinfection with the virus is probably rare, but said the findings imply that initial exposure to the virus may not result in full immunity for everyone.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/08/28/first-us-covid-19-reinfection-case-identified-in-nevada-study/24603136/
California Woman Infected With COVID-19 Second Time Survives
Older article republished today but it was from 5/2020
Janice Brown, 66, was the first COVID-19 positive patient at Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville, California, in late March.
Now, she is the first two-time coronavirus patient hospitalized at Desert Valley.
"I thought it was over," Brown told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview. "Everybody thought it was over."
Brown survived her first round with coronavirus after a four-week stay in the hospital. She went back two weeks later when her blood pressure dropped and her temperature spiked. She tested positive again.
[Brown] was the first patient that came back to the hospital that tested positive again," Dr. Imran Siddiqui said. "Is it a reinfection or the same infection? We don't know."
More than 160 South Koreans tested positive for a second time for COVID-19 in April, weeks after being discharged, though health officials there did not label them as reinfections. Korean doctors instead say those patients likely had lower levels of the virus that diagnostic polymerase chain reaction tests failed to pick up.
Most scientists say people who have had the virus gain some immunity, though they do not know how long that protection lasts.
Brown left the hospital for a second time last week.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/california-woman-covid-19-reinfection/2020/05/14/id/967518/