Interesting, was just wondering about that, as a separate thing I'd seen was that repeated exposure to COVID seemed to actually increase your chances of experiencing Long COVID. I still wonder how that factors into it, even if you have been vaccinated multiple times, will it help with repeated exposure to COVID over time (likely we won't know for awhile, but this seems to suggest it would)?

Yet another thing that vaccinated people can point to that shows we were right and the antivaxxers were wrong, though obviously they'll not bother to care about this new data point if they've not cared about it before, but at least they'll have that Long COVID to keep them company.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most reinfection studies were done on people who contacted it more than once in a year IIRC, and COVID suppresses T cell levels for nearly a year, or sometimes even more.

I'm not sure we can say more infections = higher risk per infection, but each additional infection is another roll of the dice in any case.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 2 points 10 months ago

One virologist coined the term, "ARDS Roulette". I don't want to play that game.