Posted on 10/13/2023 10:14:25 AM PDT by algore
Nearly four years after Covid’s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection.
“I’ve seen a few patients with five infections,” said Dr. Grace McComsey, vice dean for clinical and translational research at Case Western University. “Sadly, they were immunized and they still got Covid five times.”
Three people said their later infections were all less severe than the first — though there wasn’t necessarily a clear pattern of milder symptoms with each new illness. Even so, having Covid was still mentally and emotionally exhausting each time, they said, since it disrupted their work and time with loved ones.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified more than 2.7 million Covid reinfections from September 2021 to December 2022 across a set of regions containing about 45% of the U.S. population. But because some states stopped tracking reinfections or never recorded them, it’s not clear how common it is to be infected multiple times.
Doctors who study Covid say it’s not surprising that some people have gotten Covid more than once a year, given how widely the virus has spread and how frequently cases surge.
“The virus continued to mutate, so it has a way of escaping immunity,” said Dr. Miriam Merad, chair of the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
There aren’t always easy explanations for why a patient has gotten Covid many times, McComsey said, but a few factors could be at play. The most obvious is that if people are immunocompromised, their immunity from a prior infection is more likely to wane.
Reinfections do bring a new risk of long Covid, McComsey said: Each time someone gets Covid, it introduces another assault to the immune system that can result in long-lasting symptoms.
However, Merad said, young, healthy people shouldn’t panic about getting Covid multiple times.
“We are going to be reinfected, the same way we are reinfected by flu. But the most severe infection was the one that we observed when we were not vaccinated,” she said.
“Sadly, they were immunized and they still got Covid five times.”
That pretty much sums things up.
They were vaccinated?
Covid gave me the crabs.
What a joke. And people totally buy into this. Their faith is unshakable.
Yep, just unbelievable
Vax.
Low T.
Low Vitamin D.
Obese.
Blood sugar issues.
BP issues.
Systemic inflammation.
Etc.
“I wonder what all these serial covidators have in common ?”
Excellent question.
I bet they loved to wear masks.
The ONLY people I know who have had Covid more than once were vaxxed. One is in the medical profession and she is mad but still maintains “get the vax”. Unshakable faith in Fauci. It’s a cult. Like Climate Changers.
I’ve had hundreds of colds... I’m fine.
What an absolute joke.
I’ve had polio five times. I’m fine. [/s]
I’ve had it once (unvaxxed) and I’d rather have COVID again rather than a lot of flu and cold cases I’ve had, which were much worse.
but how can it be that VAXXED individuals contracted covid? Let alone 5 times?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Perhaps our paid shills here at FR can explain that answer.
Safe and EFFECTIVE?
Not vaccinated - I had covid a year ago May. As bad as it was, it was nowhere near as bad for me as those I know who were vaccinated and got covid anyway.
The worst part - where that POS who tested me with a long q-tip punctured something way up in my left nostril. I was in pain for several weeks and still don’t breathe right in my left nostril.
butt the vaxx is so great, how can this be?
“But she noticed that her symptoms tended to be more severe if several months had passed since her most recent Covid vaccine.
Emily’s third infection in May 2022 — six months after her booster shot — was the worst, she said.”
Lol.
Add:
A host of psych drugs
Excessive Worry about Global WarmingCooling, White Supremacy and Trump
Yeah, aren’t Liberals always lecturing us about using “anecdotal evidence?”
Yes, but it was mild Polio…
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