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As Omicron continues to mutate and form new sub variants, millions and millions of people across the globe are getting reinfected independent of vaccination status and previous infection. Some estimates are as high as 500 million worldwide with reinfections while other estimates using existing state data showed several million reinfections in the United States alone.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/america…
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34351…
It has been well-established that the acute phase of COVID-19 in those reinfected with current variants tends to have less severe disease.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056…
There is very little data though on whether individuals who have been infected more than one time have an increased risk of chronic conditions, such as Long COVID-19, mortality, hospitalizations, and organ dysfunction.
New data comparing those with a single previous COVID infection compared to those with more than one previous COVID infection (2, 3, and more than 3 previous infections) and then looking at their 6 month health has been done. They found that those with multiple infections have an increased risk of death, hospitalizations, cardiovascular, neurologic, pulmonary, fatigue, psychiatric, diabetes, and more at 6 months!
https://www.researchsquare.com/articl…
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