COVID-19 reinfection rate less than 1% for those with severe illness

(University of Missouri-Columbia) A review of more than 9,000 US patients with severe COVID-19 infection showed less than 1% contracted the illness again, with an average reinfection time of 3.5 months after an initial positive test. Those are the findings from a study conducted by researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care.