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haxxiy on 29 August 2020
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useruserB said:
haxxiy said:

It's also possible the virus was jettisoned out of the body so quickly by the innate immune system that he didn't have the time to build up a defense. We do know this Hong Kong man tested negative for antibodies right after he recovered the first time around. And since he didn't develop any symptoms, it seems feasible to suppose he still had iprotective, but not sterilizing immunity. 

Of course, no one can be sure yet. It's hard to extrapolate anything from a sample of one among potentially hundreds of millions. But mere statistics would tell someone, somewhere, would have drawn the shortest straw and be reinfected by now, so yeah.

Looks like the shortest straw isn't reinfection(which is probably quite common and minor and/or non-disease causing) but is actually reinfection + the illness being worse the second time around.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-reinfection-case-confirmed-us.html

"The 25-year-old first tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-April after he developed typical symptoms of the disease, including headache, cough, sore throat, nausea and diarrhea. Within 10 days, his symptoms had resolved and he later tested negative for the virus twice.

But at the end of May, the patient developed a fever, headache, dizziness, cough, nausea and diarrhea once more. Within a week, his blood oxygen levels dropped and he was hospitalized, where he received oxygen support. Finally, 48 days after he tested positive for the coronavirus the first time, he tested positive once again."

Statistically speaking, there should be at least 9,000 people in the state of New York who received a false positive result from the PCR test, and 180 who received two false positives and are probably 100% sure they had the disease. Meanwhile, with millions of cases and constant monitoring, no more than a handful ever presented with a plausible case of reinfection, and none that has been peer reviewed. I wouldn't put too much stock on it when Covid-19 symptoms are so generic, and both sample contamination and false positives happen.