Accordingly, for a person who has already had a primary infection, the risk of having a severe reinfection is only approximately 1% of the risk of a previously uninfected person having a severe primary infection. It needs to be determined whether such protection against severe disease at reinfection lasts for a longer period, analogous to the immunity that develops against other seasonal “common-cold” coronaviruses, which elicit short-term immunity against mild reinfection but longer-term immunity against more severe illness with reinfection. If this were the case with SARS-CoV-2, the virus (or at least the variants studied to date) could adopt a more benign pattern of infection when it becomes endemic.
I don’t think that was the conclusion. Have a read it’s not that long.
On a personal note, one could interpret it that way if they disregard their ability to transmit their viral load to someone who hasn’t been infected yet. You are probably fine from hospitalization, but you can’t stop from transmitting it to others who may not be fine for a number of reasons.
I am also not sure there has been a great deal of research yet on just how long infection protects you or others, especially from evolving variants still to come. I already have some anecdata (two points) of reinfection of people who were double vaccinated. (Pre and post vax), so we are still in the Wild West in my opinion, so I’m keeping my six shooter drawn.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 10.9 ms ] threadAccordingly, for a person who has already had a primary infection, the risk of having a severe reinfection is only approximately 1% of the risk of a previously uninfected person having a severe primary infection. It needs to be determined whether such protection against severe disease at reinfection lasts for a longer period, analogous to the immunity that develops against other seasonal “common-cold” coronaviruses, which elicit short-term immunity against mild reinfection but longer-term immunity against more severe illness with reinfection. If this were the case with SARS-CoV-2, the virus (or at least the variants studied to date) could adopt a more benign pattern of infection when it becomes endemic.
On a personal note, one could interpret it that way if they disregard their ability to transmit their viral load to someone who hasn’t been infected yet. You are probably fine from hospitalization, but you can’t stop from transmitting it to others who may not be fine for a number of reasons.
I am also not sure there has been a great deal of research yet on just how long infection protects you or others, especially from evolving variants still to come. I already have some anecdata (two points) of reinfection of people who were double vaccinated. (Pre and post vax), so we are still in the Wild West in my opinion, so I’m keeping my six shooter drawn.