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“The Doctor Is In”
Lori Wilkinson
Myth Debunked:
Location Real Estate, LLC
You Can Get COVID-19 Again Realtor, Partner, GRI, SRES,
CRS
by Dr. Anthony Hatcher, 402-570-4687
Chief Medical Officer, lwilkinson@locationlincoln.com
Hillcrest Health Services I’M A SENIORS REAL ESTATE SPECIALIST ®
Coronavirus is a “Novel” virus, Every transition is an opportunity, regardless of your stage in
meaning we have never experi- life. By partnering with an SRES® like me during your home
enced anything like this before. search, you’ll gain the help and experience of a REALTOR®
Our research is evolving, and specialized in meeting the needs of home buyers
we’re learning more and more and sellers 50+. I am pleased to be your SRES®.
every day about COVID-19.
Unfortunately, we now know you
can contract COVID-19 more than
once, and it could be sooner than
you think.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
once an individual has recovered to last for a longer period.
from COVID-19, it is believed the It’s advised that you don’t test
individual is unable to get it back individuals again until after 90
for 90 days. However, we have days from the initial infection to
seen a few cases where individu- better the accuracy of the results.
als have been re-infected within Unfortunately, there have been
the first 90 days. Overall, we cases where individuals have
believe that you develop antibod- recovered and then after 90 days
ies after you have the initial infec- test positive again as a new infec-
tion, and those antibodies will pro- tion.
tect you for up to 90 days. Recent No matter the case – wear a 2825 North
research shows that some individ- mask, social distance, wash your
uals may have immunity for up to hands frequently and take all of 14th St.
eight months. the precautions you can to pre-
Research is also showing that vent the spread.
individuals who are asymptomatic
or who had minimal symptoms
tend to develop a less-
er immune response,
and therefore, not as
many antibodies.
Those are the individu-
als who tend to be re-
infected sooner.
Individuals who have
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