If you’ve had it, can you still spread it ?

[Fidgety31]

Just wondering - I’ve had a positive result so may now have some immunity from getting it again , maybe not ?
But am I still able to spread it in the future even though I am now better ?

Quite a few cases of reinvention now so I really wouldn't place any hopes on immunity even with positive antibody test.

I think there's actually only been a tiny number of reinfections and even those aren't definite as it now seems possible tests can pick up old traces of virus.

I'm afraid though that at the moment the answer to your question appears to be that no one knows. No one really knows the potential for reinfection let alone how infectious someone might be.

Personally I think/hope that any reinfections would be much weaker.

No one knows.

I think no one knows unfortunately.

I think there are lots of different strains globally now and there's no ban on travel so different strains are circulating.

@Lindy2

I think there's actually only been a tiny number of reinfections and even those aren't definite as it now seems possible tests can pick up old traces of virus.

I'm afraid though that at the moment the answer to your question appears to be that no one knows. No one really knows the potential for reinfection let alone how infectious someone might be.

Personally I think/hope that any reinfections would be much weaker.

There are at least six now that are definitely reinfections as they are slightly different variants of the virus. Two were asymptomatic both times. The remaining four had fairly mild diseases the first time. Of these, one was asymptomatic the second time, one had a milder disease, one had worse symptoms that did not require hospitalisation and one did require hospitalisation. There's also a doctor in the ICU in Catalonia but I don't how well that's been proven. It's too small a sample to draw much conclusion from other than it's possible to have a worse time of it the second time. It's quite concerning that we're finding

Posted too soon. It's concerning that we're finding any at this point as it suggests a very short period of useful immunity in line with seasonal coronaviruses (6-18 months on average) rather than SARS1 and MERS (thought to be a few years). The hospitalised case only had 48 days between positive tests.

My friend has just caught it for a second time (both test confirmed) 5 months apart. V poorly each time so no one should be complacent about it.