NYC neighborhoods top 25% COVID positivity as new cases surge again.
In this week's episode of The Debrief, NBC New York's Adam Kuperstein sat down with two researchers and a nurse who want to understand why some people haven't been infected with the novel coronavirus yet after more than two years into the pandemic. Can they be immune?Of particular concern is reinfection. Australian authorities have reported evidence that people who had COVID-19 caused by a BA.2 variant now seem to be getting sick again just weeks later with the BA.4 or BA.5 variants.
Last month, researchers who analyzed millions of medical records from the Veterans Administration concluded that people reinfected with COVID a second, third or even fourth time" show that reinfection adds risk of all-cause mortality and adverse health outcomes in both the acute phase and the post-acute phase of reinfection – suggesting that for people who already infected once, continued vigilance to reduce risk of reinfection may be important to reduce overall risk to one’s health,"...
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