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Peter Gerdes's avatar

Ok and apparently the worries about inacurrate reporting are overblown.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

It's not unthinkable, although I struggle to name an agent acting this way. It should go dormant like a chickenpox, but somehow be able to trick the immune system into losing track of it.

What I meant is that they are infected again in case of re-exposure, being in contact with a carrier of a pathogen. Just as in case of flu.

I think I see where you're going with this question, a fixed chance of reinfection within a certain time range is by no means the best way to model it, but perhaps it can be used as an approximation.

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