Two separate studies say coronavirus immunity can stop reinfection
Coronavirus immunity is still not fully understood, but an increasing number of studies indicate that protection after infection might last longer than initially expected. The hope is vaccines will elicit the same kind of immunity. Two independent research teams discovered that people who developed neutralizing antibodies after beating COVID-19 were significantly less likely to get sick upon reinfection. Teams from Oxford and the U.S. National Cancer Institute independently found that COVID-19 survivors are 10 times less likely to be reinfected. About a year ago, the novel coronavirus was already spreading quietly in Wuhan, though back then it was referred to…
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