Tedros Adhanam, Director General of the World Health Organization, is speaking at a daily briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
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World Health Organization officials warned on Friday that, although rare, recent data suggests that people who were once infected with the coronavirus may be re-infected as their antibody response decreases.
“We’ve seen the number of infected people continue to grow, but we’re also seeing data coming out that protection can’t be a lifetime, and so we can see that re. The reinstatement begins. Emergency Program, said during a press briefing at the organization’s Geneva headquarters. “So the question is what is the level of protection in society?”
Reinfection means that a person is infected with the virus, recovers, and later re-infected, according to the U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention According to the centers. Based on the CDC’s experience with other viruses, the Covid-19 redesign is expected, the agency said.
However, researchers are trying to determine how recurrent and recurrent infections occur, among other considerations, how severe re-determination can be and how long after the first infection.
Maria Van Kerkov, head of the WHO’s Mer Filling Diseases and Zoonosis Unit, said researchers are still trying to determine how long an antibody response lasts after someone has been infected with the virus.
“What we understand is that in 90 to 100% of people who are infected with coronavirus develop an antibody response whether you have a mild infection, a serious disease infection is an asymptomatic infection in all ways.”
Ongoing research suggests that the immune response can last for six months or more. In a recent study from Oxford, researchers found that people who contracted coronavirus were “very likely” to relapse for at least six months.
The study, conducted between April and November with 12,180 health care workers working at Oxford University Hospital, found that 89 out of 11,052 employees without antibodies had a new infection with symptoms. None of the 1,246 employees with antibodies developed a therapeutic infection.
“In some people, it may wear off after a few months, but we’re getting a good sign that immunity to a natural infection lasts for several months,” Van Kerwow said. “We’ve been dealing with this epidemic for almost a year and so we still have a lot to learn.”
In late August, researchers in Hong Kong reported the first confirmed case of covid reinfection after a 33-year-old man was first infected with the virus in late March, more than four months later, the virus re-infected, State News reports. Although rare, the WHO acknowledged at the time that reorganization was possible.
“That doesn’t mean a lot is happening; we know it’s possible,” Van Kerkov said during a live question and answer session on August 26.
– CNBC Sam Meredith Contributed to this report.
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