What are the odds of getting Covid twice?
Covid-19 means a person was infected, recovered, and then later became infected again. After recovering from the disease, most individuals will have some protection from repeat infections.
However, reinfections do occur after Covid-19. A recent ICMR study has shown that people infected with Delta variant of coronavirus remain susceptible to Omicron which proves the latter's immune evasion potential post natural infection and vaccination.
In the study done on a healthcare professional infected during all three Covid waves, ICMR scientists stressed that although vaccine boosters augment the immune response against the Omicron variant, it wanes over time and hence, non pharmacological interventions such as wearing masks, maintaining hand hygiene and infection control remain the most reliable weapons to curb the direct transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Doctors say reinfections usually appear to be mild in otherwise healthy people. But some reinfections are serious, and it’s not clear what the risk of long Covid might be.
United States
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Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
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Brazil
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Cases: 8 494 589
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