Recovered patients who tested positive for COVID-19 likely not reinfected.

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This phenomenon is likely due to the shortcomings of the coronavirus test, experts say.

More than 260 COVID-19 patients in South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus after having recovered, raising alarm that the virus might be capable of "reactivating" or infecting people more than once. But infectious disease experts now say both are unlikely.

Rather, the method used to detect the coronavirus, called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cannot distinguish between genetic material (RNA or DNA) from infectious virus and the "dead" virus fragments that can linger in the body long after a person recovers, Dr. Oh Myoung-don, a Seoul National University Hospital doctor, said at a news briefing Thursday (April 30), according to The Korea Herald.

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[HungryHufflepuff]

Ok that's somewhat reassuring because I had been wondering how a vaccine would work if people who've had the virus can get it again.