Good evening

 

If one thing has caused a coronavirus kerfuffle today, it's news Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive.
He wasn’t the only one advised to self-isolate, of course. 
The NHS Test and Trace service also contacted, among others, Lancashire MP Katherine Fletcher - who represents South Ribble - and met the PM at Downing Street last week among others. 

The reverberations continue and not least because they have attended other meetings in the interim.

But the PM’s isolation caused a flood of confusion and scratching of heads simply because he had already had Covid-19. 

Wasn’t he supposed to have antibodies?
Of course it’s not that simple - there’s no evidence yet that somebody who has had the disease retains antibodies permanently.
And we don’t know for certain if an individual who has had the disease can’t spread it - or even catch it again.
Let’s be honest nobody really knows and scientists are still trying to work it all out.
The only thing that could have prevented this particular maelstrom of corona chaos was politicians locking down like everyone else and sticking to video meetings.

 

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Kind regards, Nicola