At mentioned earlier --- every time you get Covid your risk for negative outcomes increases. Those who pretend Covid does not exist and are perfectly willing to catch it multiple times are not really enhancing their "natural immunity" -- seeing that having a previous infection does nothing to prevent Omicron re-infection -- but merely increasing their personal probability of being hospitalized. All of this coupled with the fact the unvaccinated are much more likely to have negative health consequences through multiple cycles of re-infection. Keep getting COVID? Each time increases the risk of health complications, study finds https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article262801608.html For those who catch COVID-19 more than once, each reinfection may increase the risk of health complications, according to a new study published as a preprint. The increased risks were seen in both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals, including those who had gotten a booster dose, study authors from the Washington University School of Medicine and VA Saint Louis Health Care System wrote in their research, which is currently under review by Nature Portfolio, published June 17. The work, titled “Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection,” found that after every COVID-19 reinfection, there was a higher risk of death, hospitalization and lasting health consequences from the virus, including on the lungs and throughout the body, according to the study. “Risks were lowest in people with 1 infection, increased in people with 2 infections, and highest in people with 3 or more infections,” authors wrote after setting out to address whether reinfections add to “health risks associated” with an initial infection. Researchers believe the work is the first to fully “characterize” reinfection risks. In the work, electronic health records from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs were examined, including records of 257,427 people infected with COVID-19 for the first time, 38,926 people who were reinfected and 5,396,855 people who were not known to be infected. Of those reinfected, more than 36,000 had COVID-19 twice, more than 3,000 had been infected three times and more than 200 had been infected four or more times, according to the study. COVID-19 reinfections can occur quickly regardless of vaccination status, McClatchy News previously reported. In one case, a health care worker, who was vaccinated and boosted, tested positive for the virus 20 days after their first infection, according to researchers in Spain. In this recent study, the results “should not be considered conclusive” as they are “preliminary,” according to a written note included at the top of the report. Dr. Aubree Gordon, who was not involved in the study and is an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, told McClatchy News that the study “merits more research being done.”
The only protection against catching Omicron Covid again is vaccination --- there is no "natural immunity" -- and even vaccination is only slightly effective against re-infection until the new Omicron boosters are available this fall. Vaccination still protects you from getting severely ill from Omicron. Keep in mind that over 80% of the people hospitalized in ICU in western nations for Covid are still those who are unvaccinated. You can now get COVID again within 4 weeks because of the new Omicron BA.5 variant, health expert says https://www.businessinsider.com/cov...-reinfection-contagious-health-experts-2022-7 Omicron BA.5 is becoming the dominant coronavirus strain in the US. One expert called it "the worst version of the virus that we've seen." It's four times as resistant to antibodies as other variants and may reinfect people in just weeks. Health experts in the US and abroad have found that the coronavirus variant currently responsible for most infections in the US,Omicron BA.5, can quickly reinfect people who have protection against the virus. People who have been vaccinated, received antibody treatments, or developed natural immunity from contracting the virus were previously thought to have a lower risk of getting COVID-19, at least in the months following exposure. But Andrew Robertson, the chief health officer of Western Australia, told News.com.au that he's seeing people get reinfected with the coronavirus in a matter of weeks. "What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then becoming infected after four weeks," he said. "So maybe six to eight weeks they are developing a second infection, and that's almost certainly either BA.4 or BA.5." As of Saturday, Omicron BA.5 was responsible for about 53% of COVID-19 infections in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BA.4, another highly contagious Omicron subvariant, accounted for 16.5% of the infections. Reinfections with BA.5 and BA.4 are typically less severe compared with early COVID-19 infections, Dr. David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider. As the virus has evolved to have some resistance to antibodies, immune systems are learning to respond to it without making the body go haywire, he said. Latest subvariants are extra resistant to antibodies Like previous Omicron subvariants, BA.5 and BA.4 are known to have mutations that let them evade protection against the virus from COVID-19 vaccines or prior infections. While the immune system still churns out antibodies to neutralize an infection, that protection tapers off over time. It's not an on-off switch, Dowdy said — but if someone is exposed to a tricky subvariant as their protection is waning, the virus may find an opening. "Anything that can get around that immune response just a little bit faster has an advantage when a lot of the population is immune," Dowdy said. A recent study out of Columbia University that has not been peer-reviewed found that the recent BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants were at least four times as resistant to protection against the virus compared with previous variants in the Omicron lineage. Researchers led by Dr. David Ho, the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, took antibodies from people who received at least three doses of an mRNA vaccine or got two shots and were then infected with Omicron. In a lab study, researchers watched to see how these antibodies performed against Omicron subvariants. Peter Chin-Hong, a University of California, San Francisco, infectious-disease expert, told the Los Angeles Times that BA.4 and BA.5's "superpower is reinfection." Meanwhile, Dr. Eric Topol, the director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, San Diego, called BA.5 "the worst version of the virus that we've seen" in a recent blog post because of its ability to evade immunity and increased transmissibility.
Let's be very clear -- the head of the Danish Health Authority, Soren Brostrom never stated this. You are pushing fake news. Please provide a link to the source so we can mock it further --- because obviously it will turn out to be some right-wing conspiracy site.