Coronavirus reinfections are on the rise, and doctors can’t explain them

[Chris Smith]

• Doctors treating coronavirus patients have noticed an increasing number of COVID-19 reinfections.
• Scientists in various countries have reported reinfections, warning that the second bout of COVID-19 will not be necessarily easier than the first.
• Researchers also say that more people might be reinfected as the second wave arrives, and there’s no guarantee that the ones who survived COVID-19 will have lasting immunity to the illness.

Experts estimate that the novel coronavirus pandemic will be over in late 2021, assuming vaccines and new treatments work. The virus may never disappear, and the public will need to observe face mask requirements and social distancing guidelines well into 2021, even after vaccines become widely available. That’s because vaccines won’t be 100% effective, and they won’t block all infections. Even if they do offer protection, there’s no telling how long vaccine-based immunity with lasts.

Immunity to COVID-19 acquired by exposure to the virus is far from ideal. Doctors treating COVID-19 patients report an increasing number of reinfections, and they can’t explain why some of them occur so soon after the first. The reinfection phenomenon might become even more widespread, as there aren’t clear protocols in place to identify and catalog reinfections.

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