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Individuals can be infected repeatedly with the same cold virus

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Individuals can indeed be infected repeatedly with the same cold-causing viruses, as immunity wanes over time and does not permanently prevent reinfection.

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The time course of the immune response to experimental coronavirus infection of man

1990 · cited by 682

Callow et al. (1990) demonstrated that individuals can be reinfected with the homologous coronavirus 229E after antibody levels declined over time.

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The durability of immunity against reinfection by SARS-CoV-2: a comparative evolutionary study

2021 · cited by 159

Bohm et al. (2021) showed through comparative evolutionary analysis that immunity to human coronaviruses wanes, enabling reinfection.

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