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Negligent selfish people make willfully ignorant arguments in the face of strong evidence that the latest variants of the omicron family are even more capable of reinfecting people soon after recovery. Each infection puts them and those they unknowingly or carelessly expose at risk of harm that is better avoided. Encouraging higher rates of infection is rather automisanthropic - it puts one's own health at further harm and worse, those they care about are potential victims.
COVID reinfections: are they milder and do they strengthen immunity?
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But are reinfections milder?
Primary infections in vaccinated people (who have some COVID immunity) are generally less severe than primary infections in unvaccinated people (who don’t have any immunity) – this is why hospitalisation rates are lower among the vaccinated.
It’s reasonable therefore to assume that, in general, reinfections should be less severe than primary infections, as the person being reinfected will have some pre-existing immunity from their primary infection. Plus, many people will have been vaccinated between their infections, which will have further raised their levels of immunity.
And even though immunity against being infected by the coronavirus and developing COVID symptoms wanes, protection against severe disease and death appears much more durable. So at the extreme end of things, reinfections definitely seem to be less severe.
However, whether your second infection ends up not feeling as bad as your first may depend on when you get infected. ONS data shows the proportion of people reporting symptoms with their reinfection varies depending on what variant they were likely infected with second time round.
The ONS estimates that reinfections with alpha gave people symptoms only 20% of the time, whereas delta reinfections caused symptoms in 44% of cases and omicron in 46%. Its data also shows that people reinfected with alpha were much less likely to get symptoms the second time compared to their primary infection. Whereas delta reinfections were somewhat more likely to give people symptoms compared to their primary infection. With an omicron reinfection, the rate of symptoms was about the same across the reinfection and primary infection.
We know that the severity of COVID varies from one variant to another. However, it’s difficult to distinguish how much of the difference above is down to the different strengths of the variants, and how much is due to levels of COVID immunity from prior infection and vaccination present in people at the time.
A question that remains unanswered is whether an omicron infection in an unvaccinated person is less severe if that person has already been infected. In a small omicron outbreak in a US household, one unvaccinated person caught the virus for the first time and four unvaccinated others for the second. The illness of the person experiencing the virus for the first time was more severe the illness of those reinfected – but the very small number of cases precludes any firm conclusions.
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On the other hand, there have been opposing reports in the past of more severe disease being caused by reinfection. So while it’s plausible that reinfections should be milder, at the moment, we’re still lacking robust evidence that proves this.
This is the report referenced in this section
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35264078/
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Sick enough to go the hospital? No. Sick enough to impact cognitive ability or other side-effects? Unknown. Sick enough that you would not want the kid dropped off at your house to babysit? Definitely. Sick enough to get his parents to be scary-sick, so that they had trouble caring for him? Also yes.