25-year-old man first in U.S. to catch COVID-19 twice, researchers say
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The man, a resident of Washoe County in Nevada, first tested positive for the virus in April and then again in June, researchers said in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, a medical journal.The team, led by researchers from the University of Nevada and Nevada State Public Health Laboratory, said the man showed symptoms each time he tested positive.The patient, who had no history of significant underlying conditions, first tested positive at a community testing event on April 18, when he had symptoms such as sore throat, cough, headache, nausea and diarrhea that began on March 25. Because the degree of protective immunity in patients infected with COVID-19 is still unknown, the possibility of reinfection is still not well understood, the researchers wrote."These findings suggest that the patient was infected by SARS-CoV-2 on two separate occasions by a genetically distinct virus," the researchers said.
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