With media outlets reporting over the weekend that WHO states you can catch Omicron twice.... the "Omicron is the vaccine" mantra is not working out very well.
Can someone get Omicron for the second time after recovering?
WHO scientists informed if it is possible to get Omicron for the second time after recovering.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/phot...-time-after-recovering-101641702470229-1.html
In case someone recovered from Omicron, is it possible for them to get it for the second time?
According to the scientists of World Health Organisation (WHO), it is possible to get Omicron for the second time.
WHO published in a note on Omicron that it is possible to get affected for the second time. It can also affect covid-recovered people. People who are not vaccinated, are at more risk to get the virus.
Last month, WHO informed in a note that people who recovered from covid stand 2-5 times more chance to get affected by Omicron than they did by Delta.
They further informed that the severity of the symptoms of Omicron are still unknown.
They're still learning new information about Omicron. Yet, it does show there are many posting online that are clueless about "reinfections" and how scientists/researchers have been studying "reinfections".
Further, the U.S. in 2020 and most of 2021 was one of the worst countries in the world to study the genomic sequence of Covid infected patients. Yet, the latter 1/2 of 2021 there's been this "catch up" effort in the U.S. with the rest of the world.
It's that effort that I expect we'll begin to learn more about reinfections, viral shedding and many other aspects about each Variant of Concern including knowing how "viral shedding" within a quarantine household...reinfects other members over a duration of several months.
In addition, they're learning to ignore a positive Covid test within the first 90 days after the person has recovered from the initial Covid infection because of
shedding. More importantly, they're learning that the body immune response is "different" the 2nd time or 3rd time for the same person that has reinfection.
The first time around, a person may develop Covid pneumonia and related respiratory problems. A person's second infection, the same person may develop blog clots in their legs. In a third infection, the same person may develop mild symptoms (e.g. sore throat, fatigue, running nose, fever)...
Then a different person that has also had multiple Covid infections and even from the same genomic sequence Variant of Concern may have the above in a completely different order.
Why ?
Covid doesn't attack the same way even if it's the same Variant of Concern. The different ways of attacking are the reason why the host (our body) exhibits different immune system responses.
Reminder, in the 1918 - 1920 Pandemic, the Influenza was initially causing
mild symptoms although globally about 2 million people still died. Yet, it quickly learned how to get around our immune defenses by mutating into something more pathogenic...it then preceded to kill off another 48 million people for a whopping total of about 50 million deaths in the 1918 - 1920 Influenza Pandemic.
It's possible, Omicron could be just a spy to learn what defenses are thrown it's way by our Humoral and Cellular Immune Systems. It could then, in theory, mutate into something much more pathogenic after it has figured out a way to destroy our cells (kill us) by doing such without the need of a spike protein.
Covid is rewriting the academic texts on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Virology, Infectious Disease, and Genetics.
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