Woman Dies After Catching COVID-19 a Second Time
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:
Woman dies after catching COVID-19 a second time:
For the first time that we know of, a COVID-19 patient has died after recovering from the coronavirus once and then catching it again.
The 89-year-old woman initially recovered from COVID after spending a few days in the hospital. Two months later, she tested positive again and her condition rapidly deteriorated before she ultimately died, CNN reports. That makes her the first confirmed death of a patient who caught COVID-19 two separate times, and one of just a few confirmed reinfections overall.
[...] In both instances, doctors confirmed that the patients caught the coronavirus twice - rather than having it temporarily go dormant - because they both had genetically different strains across infections.
Journal Reference:
Marlies Mulder, Dewi S J M van der Vegt, Bas B Oude Munnink, et al. Reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised patient: a case report, Clinical Infectious Diseases (DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1538)
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.