2 European patients are said to have been reinfected with COVID-19

Michael Buchmeier, a professor of biology at the University of California, Irvine who studies coronaviruses, said it’s too early to jump to conclusions based on the latest headlines. “It is possible that somebody could have a recurrence,” Buchmeier told the Daily News on Tuesday afternoon. “At this particular point in time, I would say you have to be very cautious in interpreting the data.”