COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[LynnInDenver]

There is also that there's uncertainty about whether or not you can get reinfected with COVID-19. If the answer's yes that can cause a whole lot of issues on its own, because most diseases that can reinfect a body do so only after many years of the first exposure, but right now the few cases where we see what looks like a reinfection is within weeks of mending, if not days.

Hopefully that's a relapse instead of a reinfection caused by massive churn at the hospitals due to the high pressure the hospitals are under right now to make sure there's beds available for the diseased who absolutely need care and them releasing those who are recovering but not recovered prematurely.

That's the other issue... the question of, will vaccination actually keep us from getting it, or will we just become an asymptomatic carrier of it when exposed? And how quickly can we become asymptomatic carriers after getting it the first time? That would require a wholesale review of what constitutes things like realistic room occupancy in public accommodations compared to before (a review I don't think would occur in many parts of the United States give the rest of the political reaction to this nightmare), and possibly even a complete outright loss of certain types of public activities in areas where health is considered a greater right than other things, or on the other side, an additional mark against trying to treat certain illnesses because, again, the reduction in changes of treatment actually doing much to improve lifespan/quality of life.