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Just looked it up:

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n124

People who have previously been infected with covid-19 are likely to be protected against reinfection for several months, but could still carry the virus in their nose and throat and transmit it to others, according to a study which regularly tested thousands of healthcare workers.

The preprint reported interim results from Public Health England’s Siren study between 18 June and 24 November 2020. During that period, researchers detected 44 potential reinfections and 409 new infections. This equated to an 83% rate of protection from reinfection, which appeared to last for at least for five months from first becoming sick.

The research team warned, however, that early evidence from the next stage of the study suggested that some people who are themselves protected by antibodies still carry high levels of virus and could continue to infect others.

NHS staff who volunteered for the study were assigned to either the positive cohort (antibody positive or prior polymerase chain reaction (PCR) antibody test positive) or negative cohort (antibody negative, not previously known to be PCR antibody positive). They attended regular PCR and antibody testing (every two to four weeks) and completed fortnightly questionnaires on symptoms and exposures.

IMO this is nonsense - the participants were constantly monitored for infection - if they actually carried high levels of virus they never recovered in the first place and they would have continuously tested positive, no reinfection ever happened. Every college and pro sports league would have shut down for good if people who recovered from an infection were still capable of passing it on to other players, and the number of total global cases would be higher than an order of magnitude. This is a junk study, or at least their preliminary conclusions are.