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Apr 22, 2022 · Coronavirus. Getty Images. By Robert Cuffe. Head of statistics, BBC News. In the early days of the pandemic, it was extremely rare to hear of people catching Covid twice. The Omicron variant...
Apr 22, 2022 · Getty Images. In the early days of the pandemic, it was extremely rare to hear of people catching Covid twice. The Omicron variant which first emerged in late November 2021 has changed that. Why...
Jan 10, 2024 · By now, many people have had it not just once, but two, three, or even more times. Most of the time, repeat infections aren't as severe as they were the first time, leading to a sense of ...
- Reinfections on The Rise with Omicron
- Multiple Factors Explain Spike in Reinfections
- Can You Get Infected with Omicron twice?
- What Puts Some People More at Risk?
Health authorities typically define a reinfection as a case 90 days or more after a previous COVID infection, to exclude people who simply shed the virus for a long period of time. In Australia, a growing number of people have reported catching COVID-19 twice, but it's difficult to know exactly how common it is because publicly available data is li...
In Australia, Dr Cromer said the rise in reinfections was partly because more people had now been infected with COVID-19, and therefore had the potential to get it again. "Within Australia, this is the first time we would expect to see a whole lot of reinfection, because before December, we really didn't have huge numbers of infections," she said. ...
While data suggests reinfection with Omicron is not uncommon in people who were previously infected with a different COVID-19 variant, it's less clear what protection one Omicron infection confers against another. This is a particularly important question in Australia, where most infections have been with Omicron, and new Omicron subvariants contin...
There's still a lot we don't understand about our immune response to COVID-19, but Dr Cromer says protection against reinfection essentially boils down to one thing: "How much immunity you've got." "The factors that can influence that include how long it's been since your first infection — the longer it's been, the lower your antibody levels will b...
- Olivia Willis
Jul 17, 2022 · 2:01. A look at the science behind COVID-19 reinfection, including what to expect and who's most at risk. By this point in the pandemic, you've likely had COVID-19 at least once. Maybe twice....
Oct 12, 2020 · A man in the United States has caught Covid twice, with the second infection becoming far more dangerous than the first, doctors report.
May 13, 2022 · As a stealth wave of Covid makes its way across the US, those who have so far evaded the virus are now falling ill — while others are catching Covid for a second, third or even fourth time....
