According to a new study, researchers for the first time have identified someone in the United States who was re-infected with the Novel Coronavirus. The online report describes a 25-year-old man living in Reno, Nevada, who tested positive for the virus in April 2020 after showing mild illness. The man then got sick again in late May 2020 and developed more severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The study has not yet been reviewed by outside experts. In an emailed comment to Reuters, Kristian Anderson, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, said the following: This study likely represents a clear example of re-infection ... re-infections are possible - which we already knew, because immunity is never 100%. There have been reported cases of re-infection in other parts of the World, but questions have arisen about the testing accuracy involved. University of Hong Kong researchers reported earlier this week that a 33-year-old man, who had recovered in April 2020 from a severe case of COVID-19, was diagnosed four (4) months later with a different strain of the virus. Additionally, two (2) European patients, one in Belgium and one in the Netherlands, were reported to have been re-infected with the virus. Some patients developed mild cases of the virus during their second time with the infection. “You'd expect the second time around people to have much milder or ideally no symptoms,” Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told NBC News. This is because the immune system should recognize the virus and be able to respond much more strongly than it did the first time around. Jha says the case of the Hong Kong patient is “completely consistent with that.” Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory said they were able to show, through sophisticated testing, that the virus associated with each instance of the Reno man’s infection represented genetically different strains. They emphasized that re-infection with the virus is probably rare, but said the findings imply that initial exposure to the virus may not result in full immunity for everyone. This is a developing story - refresh this page for updates. [Source]
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