{"id":16406,"date":"2020-08-31T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:34:40","slug":"first-corona-virus-reinfection-identified-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16406","title":{"rendered":"First corona virus reinfection identified in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have for the first time identified a US corona virus reinfection, according to a yet to be peer-reviewed study.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory are studying the case of a 25-year-old Reno, Nevada man who had a second corona virus infection 48 days after a first case that he was cleared of after testing negative twice.<\/p>\n<p>He first tested positive in April, but was infected again in May with more severe COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement the health bodies released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Additional evidence for his second infection comes from the fact that the genomes from each infection are genetically distinct, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We examined the genomic material of the viruses and samples to investigate this,&#8221; said Mark Pandori, the director of the Reno School of Medicine. &#8220;It is just one finding, but it shows that a person can possibly become infected with SARS-CoV-2 a second time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pandori emphasized that the short timeline between the man&#8217;s infections may pose implications for the development of a much-sought after vaccine, as well as plans to institute herd immunity strategies to combat the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to note, that this is a singular finding. It does not provide any information to us with regard to the generalizability of this phenomenon,&#8221; he cautioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Researchers have for the first time identified a US corona virus reinfection, according to a yet to be peer-reviewed study. Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory are studying the case of a 25-year-old Reno, Nevada man who had a second corona virus infection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16407,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}