Scientists say Hong Kong man got coronavirus a second time

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University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously

University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

“It shows that some people do not have lifelong immunity” to the virus if they've already had it, To said. “We don’t know how many people can get reinfected. There are probably more out there.” Even if someone can be infected a second time, it’s not known if they have some protection against serious illness, because the immune system generally remembers how to make antibodies against a virus it’s seen before.

Julie Fischer, a microbiologist at CRDF Global, a nonprofit health group in Arlington, Virginia, said the study gives convincing evidence that reinfection can happen.

 

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