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Old Mar 11, 2020 | 8:18 am
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Originally Posted by SamirD
Okay, this is a bit too much because you don't see people that got AIDS from someone else suing them and winning--and AIDS is a lot more of a death sentence than anything else on the planet.
You can't get AIDS (or COVID-19) from someone else. AIDS and COVID-19 are a set of symptoms associated with two corresponding viruses, HIV and SARS-CoV-2 respectively. And not everyone who is exposed to the latter two will get the former two. In fact there are some people with a mutation called CCR5-Δ32 who are essentially immune to HIV.
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