1. Covid makes comeback

Hong Kong researchers have reported what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 reinfection, after a 33-year-old man who was first infected in March contracted the virus again while travelling in Europe four months later. There have been other reports of Covid-19 reinfection, but these have been based only on anecdotal evidence. The Hong Kong case raises questions about the durability of immune protection against the coronavirus. Researchers sequenced the virus from the patient’s two infections and found that they did not match, indicating the second infection was not tied to the first...

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