Long-held beliefs that a second COVID-19 infection is less likely to be more severe than the first are being shattered thanks to new research recently published in Nature Medicine. These findings applied to those patients who had received vaccines and boosters, and those who were unvaccinated.
“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 while speaking with Reuters earlier this month. “This was evident in unvaccinated, vaccinated, and boosted people.”
