Irene Tosetti, MD, MBA MPHDec 12, 2022

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There’s been an air of invincibility among people who have had COVID... especially among people who are vaccinated. Without ambiguity, our research shows that getting a repeat infection contributes to additional health risks in the acute phase..."

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20221111/repeat-covid-infection-doubles-risk-of-death

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Repeat COVID Infection Doubles the Risk of Death

Getting COVID-19 a second time doubles a person’s chance of dying and triples the likelihood of being hospitalized, a new study found. Vaccination and booster status did not improve survival or hospitalization rates among people who were infected more than once.

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I am a layman, but is that factor of 4 in hospitalization risk really seen in hospitals these days? I hear of Covid reinfections left and right this autumn, and vaccine severe disease efficacies dropping to 50% in recent ONS data.

Yet the hospitals stay open, strained, but not completely overrun.

Dec 12, 2022 at 5:52pmWeb