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Yeah, we want to keep you healthy, so let's get right to your medical questions in the very latest with this virus. Joining me is Dr Rochelle Walensky, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at Mass General Hospital and the professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Thanks for being with us again. Thanks so much for having me. I want to start with developing news. A lot of people are talking about this. The World Health Organization has tweeted. There is quote, no evidence that people who have had the virus and recovered are protected from getting it again. In other words, people who have had it may not have immunity after all, which is sort of the thing we were all going on. What's the deal? Is just just them being extra careful or is this something bigger? I think we have some expectation based on how other Corona viruses have operated, that we will have some immunity to this current virus. But this corona viruses actually different than others, and that surprised us in other ways. And so I think the W. H O. Is being cautious. Not only do we not know whether this gives you immunity in the future. We don't know how long that would immunity would last. If it does so, I think that they're just sort of countering some of the media that's come out. That that folks Aer, relying on immunity, that we just don't have enough information to say that that is true. So we can't walk around basically and say, I've had it, I'm immune, I'm good, no. And in fact, I will tell you are health care workers who come back with positive serology Zehr wearing the sitting protective equipment as if they didn't okay, well, that tells us a lot to the CDC also has changed a bit this weekend as well. They first listed the symptoms of the virus is fever, cough and difficulty breathing. They've now added six more symptoms, right? What are they indeed, so that as we learn more about this virus, we learn more about how it can present and certainly fever, coughing, shortness of breath or some of the very common symptoms. But it can also present with chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and loss of smell or taste. So the CDC has added those symptoms as well. So I would say if you're having these symptoms and perhaps even others, that you should contact your physician, a lot of people are looking forward to things opening back up for the summer. Here's a question from Mary. Hi, Jeff. I have a question regarding swimming pools. Will it be safe this summer for kids to swim in the pools? And will the chemicals kill the virus? Thank you. Im chlorine in the pools is thought to kill germs. That's why we use chlorine in the pools. We I haven't seen studies on chlorine specifically with Corona virus, but it is thought toe kill other viruses and bacteria. We really don't wanna have crowds around swimming pools, but I could see a time where we would have, you know, at half to 1/3 density of swimming pools, people gathering around people they have been, you know, with families that big distance social distancing with already and seeing if we could get some of those those places open. So what I'm hearing from you is the pool itself is not an issue. The chlorine kills germs. It's it's were the social distancing aspect of it I think that's probably the case. Great. Dr Walensky, Thanks so much as always. Thanks so much for having me for you at home here. So you can send me your questions on Facebook at Rawson reports on Twitter and Instagram. You can find me at Jeff Ross and look forward to hearing from you. Hope this helps. See tomorrow. Stay safe out there.