{"id":774,"date":"2023-04-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=774"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:20:40","slug":"are-repeat-covid-infections-dangerous-what-the-science-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/are-repeat-covid-infections-dangerous-what-the-science-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nature<\/h2>\n<h2>April&nbsp;26, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPeople with repeat infections were twice as likely to die and three times as likely to be hospitalized, have heart problems or experience blood clots than were people who were infected only once. In a surprising twist, vaccination status didn\u2019t seem to have an impact \u2014 although other studies show vaccines to be protective. Whether these results hold true for the general population is up for debate. The Veterans Affairs cohort was made up mostly of older white men, which is not representative of the wider population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Article en anglais]<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01371-9\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01371-9<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Bowe, B., Xie, Y. &amp; Al-Aly, Z. Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection. <i>Nat Med<\/i> <b>28<\/b>, 2398\u20132405 (2022). DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-022-02051-3\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1038\/s41591-022-02051-3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Nature<\/h3>\n<h3>April&nbsp;26, 2023<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cPeople with repeat infections were twice as likely to die and three times as likely to be hospitalized, have heart problems or experience blood clots than were people who were infected only once. In a surprising twist, vaccination status didn\u2019t seem to have an impact \u2014 although other studies show vaccines to be protective. Whether these results hold true for the general population is up for debate. The Veterans Affairs cohort was made up mostly of older white men, which is not representative of the wider population.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/are-repeat-covid-infections-dangerous-what-the-science-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,72,18,39,30,36,234,203,235,11,212,8,213,14],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-clots","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-diabetes","tag-fatigue","tag-heart-disease","tag-immune-dysfunction","tag-immune-system","tag-kidney-disease","tag-long-covid","tag-lung-disease","tag-research","tag-respiratory-diseases","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}