https://time.com/6232103/covid-19-reinfections-effects/
"At this point in the pandemic, it’s easy to think of COVID-19 as something
closer to the flu than a dangerous disease. But even though the latest Omicron
variants do cause less severe symptoms than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2,
COVID-19 is still far from a typical disease—especially if you get it more than
once.
In a study published in
Nature Medicine, researchers report that COVID-19
reinfections could be taking a toll on some important organ systems. That risk
applies to both short-term and long-term health effects, says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly,
clinical epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis, and the study’s senior author.
He and his team analyzed 5.3 million health records from the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs involving people who did not test positive for SARS-CoV-2 from
March 2020 to April 2022, and compared their health status to 443,000 people
who tested positive once during that period—then to another 41,000 who tested
positive two or more times. (Most in the latter group had two or three
infections, although a small proportion had four.) They studied adverse
outcomes, like hospitalizations and deaths, in the health records for these
groups for six months.
People who had more than one COVID-19 infection were three times more likely to
be hospitalized and twice as likely to die than those who only had one
infection. Those with multiple infections were also more vulnerable to other
dangerous conditions; they were 3.5 times more likely to develop lung problems,
3 times more likely to have heart conditions, and 1.6 times more likely to have
brain changes requiring care than people who had only had COVID-19 once."
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