Ask Amy: Strange accusation roils friendship
Dear Amy: Do not give any advice about the COVID virus. In a response to a question from "Recovering in the Pacific NW," you said that people could get this virus twice. That is not true! Latent virus might stay in the body and the illness might reappear - this is not being re-infected.
-- Upset
Dear Upset: I wrote: "...As of this writing, there are some reports of people possibly having this illness more than once."
The information about COVID is refreshed and refined daily. I don't offer medical advice, and only report information released by the CDC - and even then, with many qualifiers.
My columns are written two weeks in advance of publication, and cannot keep pace with research about this disease. That's why I focus on relationship issues, and this pandemic has raised many of those.
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