AP
Washington Hispanic:
Yes already I had the coronavirus, can I get it again? It is possible, but such cases seem to be rare.
It is not unusual to develop some immunity to a virus after an infection, because our bodies are generally better at recognizing and fight against viruses that they have already fought before. And that appears to be the case with the new coronavirus, although scientists are still trying to figure out how long any protection might last.
Some reinfections have been confirmed, but two new studies showed that that’s extremely unusual.
In one of them, only two out of 1. 265 British health workers who had contracted the virus tested positive again within six months. In another study conducted in the United States, only 0.3% of people who had been infected contracted the virus again in the following months, which is about the same positive rate as the study from Great Britain.
The findings bode well for COVID vaccines – 19 that are being distributed, which trigger the type of immune response that studies found to protect humans.