Month: November 2020

The debate over whether to wear or not wear a mask to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus has ended for the CEO of a South Dakota healthcare system. Sanford Health's Kelby Krabbenhoft wrote in an email to staff that he had experienced COVID-19, but had returned to work and wouldn't be donning a mask. In the email, obtained by CNN, Krabbenhoft said "for me to wear a mask defies the efficacy and purpose of a mask and sends an untruthful message that I am susceptible to infection or could transmit it."  He added, "I have no interest in using masks as a symbolic gesture," CNN reported. Currently, the US Centers for Disease Control recommends mask-wearing, even if someone has already had COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavir...

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LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - People who’ve had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection, according to a British study of health care workers on the frontline of fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The findings should offer some reassurance for the more than 51 million people worldwide who have been infected with the pandemic disease, researchers at the University of Oxford said. “This is really good news, because we can be confident that, at least in the short term, most people who get COVID-19 won’t get it again,” said David Eyre, a professor at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, who co-led the study. Isolated cases of re-infection with COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, had raised c...