Originally posted by Rondec My six year old daughter started running a fever last Saturday and we got her tested for COVID and it was positive. So much for natural immunity -- she had COVID before at Christmas time. Fortunately, none of the rest of us seem to have gotten it -- we got tested last evening and were negative, so it does seem like the vaccines do some good for those who can take them -- a little case study, but maybe interesting none the less.
(School is really hard because there are parents who are getting "mask exemptions" from the school and there was even a parent in Amherst County, just north of us, who sent their child to school, knowing that they were positive for COVID -- that school had to go virtual for the next week and a half.
Person knowingly having coronavirus entered Amherst County school building, superintendent says ).
Very sorry and hope she is getting better, and glad that the rest of the family is neg and seem asymptotic.
I find it very interesting, her story. I imagine she had PCR testing? At our children’s hospital, the viral panel we do includes non COVID variant corona virus, along w a slew of other usual stuff. Not a molecular biologist here but I wonder the rate of cross reactivity in PCR testing amongst various strains. I simply wonder how often false positives occur due to the limitations of the testing itself.
Or that this is not that unusual, vaccines offering varying degree of protection. Or that natural immunity is indeed working, and fever may well be a part of anti (or pro) inflammatory process taking place. Without prior exposure she may have been worse off against presumably a variant strain
School is an impossible situation, of course until we can vaccinate all the way down to 5~6 or above, which I’m hearing may be approved by the end of October. Even then - good luck with compliance w vaccines. Would frequent testing make a difference? Dunno.