Reinfection Is the Most Urgent Mystery of COVID-19
The Atlantic Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality The virus can take many paths to reinvading a person’s body. Most of them shouldn’t scare us. On its face, reinfection appears to be a straightforward term. It is literally “infection, again”—a recovered person’s second dalliance with the same microbe. Long written into the scientific literature of infectious disease, it is a familiar word, innocuous enough: a microbial echo, an immunological encore act. But thanks to the pandemic, reinfection has become a semantic and scientific mess. Newly saddled with the baggag...
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