The UK's health body has warned that COVID-19 spreads "very easily through close contact with people who have the virus" and you can still be infectious for "up to 10 days"
Well shit.
Is that just for long COVID? Do the majority of infections clear completely? Also isn't part of the problem with AIDS that it will lay dormant inside of you for years after initial infection without any symptoms. Same with, like, TB. Is there any evidence that that happens with COVID?
The numbers are still unclear. Keep in mind that HIV/AIDS, TB et al have had a much longer time around to be studied. The researcher I quoted above mentioned studying HIV for 20 years. COVID is only approaching the end of year 5. In spite of its recency, we do still have a wealth of data to tell us how threatening it is, anyway. Being re-infected several times per year is certainly not tipping the odds in anyone’s favor, either.
Well shit. Is that just for long COVID? Do the majority of infections clear completely? Also isn't part of the problem with AIDS that it will lay dormant inside of you for years after initial infection without any symptoms. Same with, like, TB. Is there any evidence that that happens with COVID?
The numbers are still unclear. Keep in mind that HIV/AIDS, TB et al have had a much longer time around to be studied. The researcher I quoted above mentioned studying HIV for 20 years. COVID is only approaching the end of year 5. In spite of its recency, we do still have a wealth of data to tell us how threatening it is, anyway. Being re-infected several times per year is certainly not tipping the odds in anyone’s favor, either.
The safest thing to do is also, thankfully, the simplest: wearing a well-fitting, N95-grade respirator whenever one is away from their home. These types of respirators are, regardless of anything you may have heard, extremely effective at protecting you and others from infecting one another, even one-way.