What to Make of Research Suggesting Immunity to Covid-19 Is Short-Lived

Be careful not to jump to conclusions

Yasmin Tayag
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJul 14, 2020

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Yesterday, a preprint that was recently posted to the server medRxiv (meaning the study has not undergone peer review, an important step for accurate science research) generated a flurry of excitement — and criticism — for its implication that immunity to the coronavirus might only…

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Yasmin Tayag
Elemental

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.