Those who recover from COVID-19 will likely have a period of three months where they are safe from suffering a reinfection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new guidance.
There previously had been debate in the medical community over whether those who contract the novel coronavirus would be able to be infected a second time. As The Hill noted, the new CDC guidance is the first public acknowledgement that there may be a specific period of immunity from COVID-19. The report noted that previous research indicated that antibodies in a recovered patient fade over a few months, though it did not specifically determine whether there was a time of protection from a second infection.
The information was included in a guidance about quarantining for those who have been in contact with a COVID-19 positive patient, noting that those who have had the infection in the past three months do not have to follow the same recommendation of self-quarantining for 14 days.
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