Study Confirms It’s Possible to Catch COVID Twice

Source: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200824/study-confirms-its-possible-to-catch-covid-twice?src=RSS_PUBLIC

xray of lung of covid19 patient

The special thing about this case is that each time the patient was hospitalized, doctors sequenced the genome of the virus that infected him. It was slightly different from one infection to the next, suggesting that the virus had mutated – or changed — in the 4 months between his infections.

Source: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200824/study-confirms-its-possible-to-catch-covid-twice?src=RSS_PUBLIC

xray of lung of covid19 patient

The special thing about this case is that each time the patient was hospitalized, doctors sequenced the genome of the virus that infected him. It was slightly different from one infection to the next, suggesting that the virus had mutated – or changed — in the 4 months between his infections.

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