A study found that repeat infections increases the possibility of hospitalization or death, but some experts refute those findings
published in the Nature Medicine journal that looked at the healthcare database from the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
The VA researchers decided to conduct the study because patients who had already been infected were coming to local clinics with this “air of invincibility about them”, Al-Aly said. “Some media actually started referring to these patients as ‘To determine if that was valid, the researchers compared health outcomes among more than 440,000 participants with no Covid reinfection with about 40,000 participants who had at least one reinfection.
“What might pop up in a database with a lot of sicker, older people won’t necessarily apply to younger, healthier people,” said John Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. There is also new, perhaps encouraging, evidence that long Covid symptoms from mild infections resolve within a year rather than leading to chronic health problems among the vast majority of people, according to a study conducted in Israel and published in the“Many of these cases resolved certainly within a year, which is not great – I’m not trying to minimize this,” Moore said. “But there’s increasing indications that for most people, it’s not for life, which is a good thing.
“I would be much more afraid of uncertainty,” he said. “Armed with real knowledge, knowing the consequences, you can actually take measures to protect yourself, protect your family on an educated basis.” US residents must now consider precautions – or not consider them at all – after Joe Biden declared the pandemic over and in a society where far fewer people wear masks.
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