Can people get COVID-19 more than once? Questions about the possibility of reinfection or the development of long-term immunity to SARS-CoV-2 have circulated for many months.

In this Microbial Minutes we evaluate recently published data that is beginning to shed light on this subject.

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Neutralizing antibodies correlate with protection from SARS-CoV-2 in humans during a fishery vessel outbreak with high attack rate:

Assessment of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in an intense re-exposure setting: