TY - JOUR AU - Iyengar , Karthikeyan P. AU - Jain, Vijay Kumar AU - Ish, Pranav PY - 2020/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - COVID-19 reinfection - An enigmatic public health threat JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 4 SE - COVID-19 - Collection of articles on the Coronavirus outbreak DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1596 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1596 SP - AB - <p style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="background: white;">To the Editor</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="background: white;">The COVID-19 pandemic has been consistently on the rise across the globe. The recovered patients getting long-term sequelae, especially lung fibrosis and residual neurological deficits, is an area of concern. Another extremely important conundrum is the risk of re-infection. It has been recently documented from Hong Kong&nbsp; and puts an unpleasant question mark on long term immunity, sampling technique standardization, viral mutation and efficacy of herd immunity. There are definitions for COVID -19 infection and its severity, but unfortunately none for re-infection.</span></p> ER -