{"id":107829,"date":"2020-05-29T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/covid-19-immunity-lasts-only-six-months-reinfection-possible"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:42:29","slug":"covid-19-immunity-lasts-only-six-months-reinfection-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/covid-19-immunity-lasts-only-six-months-reinfection-possible","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 immunity lasts only six months, reinfection possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-immunity-lasts-only-six-months-reinfection-possible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since there is no treatment or vaccine for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 \u2014 the disease to which it leads \u2014 the only way to stop its spread is through social distancing and good hygiene. As such, long-term protective immunity could impact the overall course of the pandemic, the post-pandemic period and any subsequent waves. Until now, this concept has been a key component of the Health Ministry\u2019s second wave strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry recently revealed that it had purchased serological tests with the aim of surveying as many as 1 million people to determine how much of the public has been infected. Since around 80% of people who get the virus show little or no symptoms, they can carry and spread it without knowing.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cserology-based tests that measure previous infections for SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 may have limited use if that infection has occurred more than one year prior to sampling,\u201d the Amsterdam researchers explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since there is no treatment or vaccine for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19 \u2014 the disease to which it leads \u2014 the only way to stop its spread is through social distancing and good hygiene. As such, long-term protective immunity could impact the overall course of the pandemic, the post-pandemic period and any subsequent waves. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}