CBSN Bay Area’s Anne Makovec interviews Dr. Malathi Srinivasan, with Stanford Health Care, talking about the potential for COVID-19 reinfection among patients who have previously tested positive.
Two European patients are confirmed to have been re-infected with COVID-19, raising concerns about people’s immunity to the coronavirus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic. The cases, in Belgium and Netherlands, follow a report this week by researchers…
2 European reinfections Netherlands Marion Koopmans (virologist) Viral genomes were different Older person with a weakened immune system Reinfections had been expected. We have to see whether it happens often Belgium Woman, first time in March, second time in June…
At least three people this week were infected with COVID-19 a second time, throwing into question what we know about immunity to the deadly virus. While reinfections have been reported in the past, including some in South Korea in May,…
Three cases of people getting reinfected with COVID-19 are raising questions about immunity to the virus. Former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden says “there is still so much to learn” about COVID-19, but that “it does look like there is…
Dr Benjamin Neuman is a virologist with 24 years experience in studying coronaviruses. He was part of the taxonomy study group that named the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19. Primarily through a Facebook group, he answers the public’s…
