Posted on 05/17/2022 4:03:54 AM PDT by EBH
“The virus is going to keep evolving,” she added. “And there are probably going to be a lot of people getting many, many reinfections throughout their lives.”
It’s difficult to quantify how frequently people are reinfected, in part because many infections are now going unreported. Dr. Pulliam and her colleagues have collected enough data in South Africa to say that the rate is higher with Omicron than seen with previous variants.
This is not how it was supposed to be. Earlier in the pandemic, experts thought that immunity from vaccination or previous infection would forestall most reinfections.
The Omicron variant dashed those hopes. Unlike previous variants, Omicron and its many descendants seem to have evolved to partially dodge immunity. That leaves everyone — even those who have been vaccinated multiple times — vulnerable to multiple infections.
“If we manage it the way that we manage it now, then most people will get infected with it at least a couple of times a year,” said Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. “I would be very surprised if that’s not how it’s going to play out.”
The new variants have not altered the fundamental usefulness of the Covid vaccines. Most people who have received three or even just two doses will not become sick enough to need medical care if they test positive for the coronavirus. And a booster dose, like a previous bout with the virus, does seem to decrease the chance of reinfection — but not by much.
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...or spyin’
Still not vaxed, still no Covid, I’ve had two major surgeries since Covid started, been in hospital in close proximity to sick folks…several members of my family and my wife’s family, all vaxed, all had Covid, some more than once.
If you add a “y” to naught, you get naughty.
I sense a bell curve from the various data points being delivered here.
scroll down...you will see someone having the problem.
Not that simple but close. It’s a cold that can easily lead to pneumonia and can cause you to throw clots. It’s a Chinese bioweapon.
Some research hospitals have set up a version of an undiagnosed network to try to figure this out. You could check around..but I have found that sometimes Drs at said facility don’t even know about the Clinic.
There is also the Harvard Undiagnosed Clinic as well as various ones around the country for things science doesnt understand
Sometimes I think I slipped into an alternate universe where common sense is non-existent.
“probably going to be a lot of people getting many, many reinfections”
that’s odd, i thought it was going to be many, many, many, many reinfections, because you know, scientifically, “many, many, many, many” is WAY more than “many, many”, which of course is more than just “many” ...
Anecdotally, I have 2 brothers: one vaxxed and the other not. Both have had positive covid test results numerous times. At least twice each. Very mild symptoms for both.
I have no vax and no desire to be vaxxed. I also will not test, now as a matter of conviction.
I have to question the natural immunity claim, tbh. Just like getting a cold, immunity doesn’t seem to matter. I am thinking suseptibility does. Similar to when a variant of a cold sweeps thru an office setting. Some folks get it and some avoid it. And not the same folks every time...hence my use of the term variant.
We get to watch the covid experiment play out in North Korea. I can’t imagine many are vaccinated, dunno.
If you’ve been vaxxed and get covid, does that give you natural immunity?
If you had covid and got vaxxed, does this protect you more?
How many people with natural immunity have died from covid? I asked the CDC this and they have no data.
I’ve had natural immunity (no vax, mild case) for 2 years - no illness since.
i will give you something to consider about brain fog. there might be some mechanism that you can figure out
I have never had COVID.
I periodically get brain fog so bad I have to go to bed and sleep. I get muscle weakness. I have not been able to pinpoint what brings it on..I started wondering if it was allergies so I was tested...and nothing.
One of the things I noticed is that often when this happens I am about to break out ..or have broken out in a fungal infection that you can get in the folds of your skin.
I did the Dr Oz yeast test of spitting in a cup.
I think there is a yeast component to my issue. Of course, no Dr equates the two at this point. It could be coincidence but I dont think so.
So perhaps you are more susceptible to some kind of fungal or yeast thing going on in your body
I have had histoplasmosis which is an insidious fungal disease that can linger in your body..similar to herpes...This all could be interrelated but Science isnt that far along. Many people have had histoplasmosis and have no clue they ever had it.
btw, if you live in the St Louis area and have ever had the flu it could have been histoplasmosis. Apparently, just about everyone there gets it according to one article I read from one of the few experts. Sometimes it disseminates to other parts of your body but mostly does not...or at least that is what they think at this time. Mine disseminated.
I trust nothing that the CDC says but it does bring up fungal infections and COVID. It stands to reason long haul COVID could have a similar issue:
COVID-19 likely increases the risk for fungal infections because of its effect on the immune system and because treatments for COVID-19 (like steroids and other drugs) can weaken the body’s defenses against fungi.32 The most commonly reported fungal infections in patients with COVID-19 include aspergillosis, invasive candidiasis, and mucormycosis (sometimes called by the misnomer ”black fungusexternal icon.”1–6 Fungal infections resistant to antifungal treatment have also been described in patients with severe COVID-19.19, 20
Sometimes I think I slipped into an alternate universe where common sense is non-existent.
Ain’t that the truth!!!
I had it in March 2020 (cough, low grade fever, fatigue, headache, and muscle aches). It lasted 2 weeks but the cough lingered for 4 weeks. I got it again in January 2022 (fever, headache, and fatigue initially, then cough, respiratory symptoms, brain fog, fatigue, and loss of taste for 5 days). This time it lasted a month, and I still have brain fog and God knows what else. Hubby got it first and was over it in a week.
Forgot to mention that I’m unvaxxed.
” And then when they get it again, they jump on social media and proclaim how thankful they are for being ‘fully vaccinated’. “
I enjoy seeing that. I find the logic of thanking a vaccine bizarre.
Thanking a vaccine when you still get covid, is like thanking a condom when you still get pregnant.
Thank goodness I used that condom when I got pregnant, it could have been worse, I could have had twins.
Makes perfect sense, if you don’t think about it.
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