Even though I don’t know enough biology to understand what you two are discussing, it sounds pretty concerning! :/
I’m just commenting because I have a suggestion about a possible data point to check (and maybe it’s a total non-starter). Singapore doctors seem to have noticed that quick tests for Dengue virus test “positive” (for Dengue) on some Covid-19 patients. The doctors say it’s because the viruses are similar also biologically. Maybe looking at what these tests target could be useful here?
And personally I’d be curious about more context on the implications of the above hypothesis – whether there’s anything you can say about risk factors for a particularly severe disease runout. For instance, is it good or bad if someone had especially many or especially few colds in the last 2 years? Or lifetime? Etc. (Of course, no need to reply, esp. because my questions may not make much sense..)
Flipped through the article, my guess is that it was a case of “Person X was infected with both (or used to have Dengue), and they tested Dengue first so they dismissed them without even considering that they had both!”
(Antibody-tests are usually highly-specific, and Dengue and Coronavirus are pretty different viruses, so I’m inclined to trust that the “Dengue +” result was correct and just how they handled that information was wrong.)
The idea of “if you’ve had a wide variety of other colds in a past, maybe you’ll get it worse” actually sounds like a fairly good one! But also, there’s probably some other reason they are getting more and worse illnesses in the first place? Would be hard to separate out the causes.
Even though I don’t know enough biology to understand what you two are discussing, it sounds pretty concerning! :/
I’m just commenting because I have a suggestion about a possible data point to check (and maybe it’s a total non-starter). Singapore doctors seem to have noticed that quick tests for Dengue virus test “positive” (for Dengue) on some Covid-19 patients. The doctors say it’s because the viruses are similar also biologically. Maybe looking at what these tests target could be useful here?
And personally I’d be curious about more context on the implications of the above hypothesis – whether there’s anything you can say about risk factors for a particularly severe disease runout. For instance, is it good or bad if someone had especially many or especially few colds in the last 2 years? Or lifetime? Etc. (Of course, no need to reply, esp. because my questions may not make much sense..)
Flipped through the article, my guess is that it was a case of “Person X was infected with both (or used to have Dengue), and they tested Dengue first so they dismissed them without even considering that they had both!”
(Antibody-tests are usually highly-specific, and Dengue and Coronavirus are pretty different viruses, so I’m inclined to trust that the “Dengue +” result was correct and just how they handled that information was wrong.)
The idea of “if you’ve had a wide variety of other colds in a past, maybe you’ll get it worse” actually sounds like a fairly good one! But also, there’s probably some other reason they are getting more and worse illnesses in the first place? Would be hard to separate out the causes.