CDC’s Updated Guidance on Investigating Possible COVID-19 Reinfections Not a Concern: Health Experts

CDC’s Updated Guidance on Investigating Possible COVID-19 Reinfections Not a Concern: Health Experts
Registered Nurse Michelle Gibbons conducts a COVID-19 swab test on a man at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, on July 22, 2020. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance for investigating probable COVID-19 reinfections in response to reports of people becoming reinfected and to support public health investigations.
The protocol requires the initial infection to be confirmed along with a “virus detection across two distinct time periods with genetic sequencing data” to be considered a true reinfection and not from persistent virus shedding.