I find it curious that the CDC doesn't talk about this much (as far as I know). Maybe they just haven't decided -- but if you really have gone through this, can you get it again, or not? I've seen people speculate but I haven't seen anything definitive.
I wonder about that, too. Many talk in terms of general widespread elimination of it, but no one claims it is different than a cold, which doesn’t leave the poor sufferer with much immunity at all.
Like everything about this, both the laymen and the experts are pretty much in the dark, it seems.
This is a good question and the answer is an hesitant qualified...no. There was a woman who was reinfected. She was sick, got better, tested clean and released, came back in a few days sick again and was worse. That scared everybody for a while, but it has not developed that way in others. (Please correct me anyone!) There are so many cases now that you are beginning to see symptom patterns, and the confidence is high that reinfection even with a second exposure to the virus, is not a problem.
The preferred theory on that woman was that the virus was still in her when she tested negative. There will not be anything definitive as you wanted, because the virus structure itself is not sufficiently understood. Just looking at the germ, it is so like other corona viruses that it should behave like them. The reason people get colds over and over is because there is no lasting immunity. We’ll see...