Hi Dr. Sanjay.

Hi Dr. Gupta, my name is Margot and I'm a college student at George Washington.

This is Bryce Wilde at a Toronto.

My question for you Dr. Gupta is...

As cases of COVID-19 have skyrocketed in the United States and around the world,

I've been getting a ton of questions from you about the virus.

You've left me messages, you've emailed.

So in this episode, I'm going to answer some of them.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

This is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

Question 1.

If a person gets the coronavirus and it's a mild case and they recover,

does that person then have immunity from the disease in the future?

This is a really important question.

There were some early reports in Japan and China of people becoming reinfected,

but researchers looked into that and they think that wasn't actually what was happening.

It's possible that those people never fully cleared the virus.

In some people, the virus can stay in the body even after they're no longer showing symptoms.

I wanted to be sure of this.

So during our CNN Town Hall, I asked Dr. Anthony Fauci,

the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

And this is what he said.

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