COVID-19 reinfection unlikely for at least six months, study finds

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COVID-19 reinfection unlikely for at least six months, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-reinfection/covid-19-reinfection-unlikely-for-at-least-six-months-study-finds-idUSKBN28015L

LONDON (Reuters) - People who’ve had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The findings should offer some reassurance for the more than 51 million people worldwide who have been infected with the pandemic disease, researchers at the University of Oxford said.

“This is really good news, because we can be confident that, at least in the short term, most people who get COVID-19 won’t get it again,” said David Eyre, a professor at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, who co-led the study.