Scientists Confirmed the First Covid-19 Reinfection in the U.S.

A Nevada man who recovered after an April infection tested positive again in May. Here’s what it all means.

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readOct 13, 2020

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An enduring mystery about the coronavirus is how long immunity to the virus lasts, once a person recovers from an infection. While the hope was that immunity would last a long…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.