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Is Trump Immune to the Coronavirus? Maybe, Maybe Not

Steve Baragona

   On the same day President Donald Trump suggested he is protected from
   the coronavirus after his bout with COVID-19, researchers showed that a
   person can be infected with the virus twice.

   "I went through it. Now they say I'm immune," Trump said at a campaign
   rally in Florida Monday. "I feel so powerful."

   But in a new study, scientists detail the case of a Nevada man who
   tested positive for coronavirus, recovered, and contracted the virus
   again weeks later.

   The evidence not only raises questions about how long immunity lasts
   after infection, but it also raises the possibility that a vaccine will
   not provide permanent protection.

   "It is totally irresponsible for the president to go around claiming
   that he's immune," said Andrew Pavia, chief of the pediatric infectious
   diseases division at the University of Utah, who was not part of the
   new study. "That's just not something that we can say with any
   scientific certainty."

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