People recovered from COVID-19 are not protected against second infection: WHO

The World Health Organization has declared that there is no evidence that patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in them are protected against a second infection called ‘immunity passports.’ “We do not have the answers to that — it’s an unknown,” Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Emergencies Program said in a press conference this week when asked how long a recovered COVID-19 patient would have immunity. A study from China about rhesus monkey not getting reinfecting when exposed to the virus is yet to be reexamined and confirmed. As this is just a month old … Continue reading People recovered from COVID-19 are not protected against second infection: WHO