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The risk of death, hospitalisation and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study published on Thursday suggests.

“Reinfection with COVID-19 increases the risk of both acute outcomes and long COVID,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “This was evident in unvaccinated, vaccinated and boosted people.”

They also had elevated risks for problems with lungs, heart, blood, kidneys, diabetes, mental health, bones and muscles, and neurological disorders, according to a report published in Nature Medicine. People in the study with repeat infections were more than three times more likely to develop lung problems, three times more likely to suffer heart conditions and 60% more likely to experience neurological disorders than patients who had been infected only once.

The researchers said cumulative risks and burdens of repeat infection increased with the number of infections, even after accounting for differences in COVID-19 variants such as Delta, Omicron and BA.5.

 

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Wow!! As for “regardless of vaccination status” kanti why did we take these vaccines

Covid is boring 😴 try something else now, and don't go for monkey pox cause we're not worried about that 1.... Sifuna noma amaVampire.

Kableni sabc kahleni don't just spread news, research ayi ma'am researching.

Blar bla blar - aren't you tired already - get a hobby

Ninxilile.. Aiboo sokonwabaphi

Le qadile hape ka nonsense... tsa hore vaccines is killing ppl one by one ha lebuwe cos ledi satane tse buswang ke satane

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