“With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s emergencies program, said today.
World Health Organization officials said not all people who recover from the coronavirus have the antibodies to fight a second infection."With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown," said Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program.
"With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program, said at a press conference at the organization's Geneva headquarters on Monday. More than 300,000 of the 1.87 million coronavirus cases across the world have recovered, WHO officials noted, adding that they need more data from recovered patients to understand their antibody response, whether that gives them immunity and for how long.
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