The novel coronavirus has proven to be unpredictable — it’s unclear if recovered patients have strong immunity against contracting it again, according to a new study from the University of Amsterdam which suggests immunity might be as short as six months.
The study said in a small group of tested subjects, there was a “substantial reduction in antibody levels as soon as six months post-infection.”
It’s not yet known if and how that would apply to a wider range of subjects.
10 Tampa Bay reporter Emerald Morrow spoke with Dr. Jay Wolfson and Dr. Haywood Brown at the University of South Florida about conferred immunity, the 2019 novel coronavirus and strategies as mutations begin to appear abroad.
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