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COVID Reinfection Rare

Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 9:37 p.m.

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rRY3emWBAEo

 

If you weather Covid-19 infection, there is a 99.3% chance that you will avoid a second infection.  A collaborative study by investigators at Cornell and Qatar Universities reviewed data from 43,044 CoVid patients.

 

Only 0.7% of this group developed another CoVid-positive PCR test.  Only 41% of that tiny group had convincing clinical evidence of a second infection. And these re-infections were less severe than the initial ones.

 

Immunologic testing of this group indicated persistent CoVid immunity for at least 7 months.

 

As more of us attain this immunity from surviving natural infections and, more importantly, via vaccination, there will be fewer new coronavirus infections and less circulating virus in our communities.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249731v1.full.pdf

 

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