By Madison Dibble
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/madison-dibble
Herd immunity for the coronavirus may be "wishful thinking," according to Dr. Clay Ackerly.
Ackerly, a primary care physician who was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, said he recently had a patient test positive for coronavirus several months after previously recovering from COVID-19. His 50-year-old patient not only caught COVID-19 a second time, but the doctor said that the latest infection was much worse than the initial illness.
"During his first infection, my patient experienced a mild cough and sore throat," Ackerly explained in an opinion piece for Vox. "His second infection, in contrast, was marked by a high fever, shortness of breath, and hypoxia, resulting in multiple trips to the hospital."
Ackerly noted that doctors in New York and New Jersey have also seen patients appear to be reinfected by the virus. The doctor explained that the patient had tested positive for COVID-19 and had then tested negative for the virus twice before testing positive once again within a span of three months.
"It is possible, but unlikely, that my patient had a single infection that lasted three months. Some Covid-19 patients (now dubbed 'long haulers') do appear to suffer persistent infections and symptoms," he said. "My patient, however, cleared his infection — he had two negative PCR tests after his first infection — and felt healthy for nearly six weeks."
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