An allergist/immunologist Bidzina Kulumbegov says that there are quite many cases of reinfection in the world.
However, the immunologist talks about reinfection and reactivation cases and explains that we often do not know if the specific case is reinfection or reactivation of the virus.
“In general, the number of repeat PCR positive patients is not small. It is about 0.1% of people infected. At least three months must pass between the first infection and the second, and in both cases, it must be determined that these are different cases and not the same virus.
A few days ago, NATURE magazine published a patient history that looks very interesting. The patient became ill again and had a positive response to PCR 144 days after the first illness, and it was revealed that it was the same virus in both cases. It was not reinfection; the virus slept in his body for 144 days,” Bidzina Kulumbegov noted.
