Posted on 11/24/2021 5:09:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
When people got reinfected with Covid-19, their odds of ending up in the hospital or dying were 90% lower than an initial Covid-19 infection, according to a new study.
The study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found that there were few confirmed reinfections among 353,326 people who got Covid-19 in Qatar, and the re-infections were rare and generally mild.
The first wave of infections in Qatar struck between March and June of 2020. In the end about 40% of the population had detectable antibodies against Covid-19. The country then had two more waves from January through May of 2021. This was prior to the more infectious delta variant.
To determine how many people got reinfected, scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar compared the records of people with PCR-confirmed infections between February of 2020 and April 2021. They excluded 87,547 people who got the vaccine.
Researchers found that among the remaining cases there were 1,304 reinfections. The median time between the first illness and reinfection was about 9 months.
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My son and I tested positive and had no symptoms. Two other immediate family members had bad cases of COVID at the same time.
6 months later I asked to be tested for antibodies, just to be sure we really had COVID. The tests said we were chock full of COVID antibodies.
0.37% reinfection rate if my math is correct.
I doubt if many of the people who say they had covid for the second time around, actually had it the first time. Unless they have a + antibody test, it could have been any one of a number of respiratory illnesses.
We weren’t a mask/lockdown state and have largely been done with it for a while… I personally know about sixty people who have had covid. I know zero people who have had it twice. Here’s the closest: My boss assumed he had it last year when his wife did but he tested negative (and didn’t have symptoms). He was antibody tested in January (not present) and vaccinated in March. Two weeks ago he was sick with Covid. His symptoms really hit after he tested— most of us had previously had it and didn’t notice anything during the last couple weeks after he had gone in for what he assumed was a sinus infection. His wife was also unaffected.
I am not sure but am curious too. I didn’t think so because his first case was before the vax was available and the second after. Will ask.
WHO labels new Covid strain, named omicron, a ‘variant of concern’, citing possible increased reinfection risk
No I see why CNN was running that story about reinfection risk.
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