Some people will not, just as a matter of statistics, make strong immune responses to a virus, so they remain vulnerable. Still, the virus began circulating in China almost eight months ago now, and in New York not long after that. So if reinfection were possible this early on, and in a lot of people, we would have seen it already. It may be that there wasn’t a lot of virus in their nose or wherever they put in the swab. And Dmitriy Khavin, a native Russian speaker who edited our visual investigation into Russia’s bombing of Syrian hospitals, is joining the team full time.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2020 03:46 UTC