Even though “Covid Is Over”™ according to many, it’s not really. Far from it actually…
Britain is being swamped by yet another Covid wave — 2% in England are currently infected, 1 in 30 in Scotland: 1.4 million people in the UK, a stark 40% week-on-week rise in prevalence. Hospitalisations highest since April https://t.co/hFiriFHY3r
— Alfons López Tena ? (@alfonslopeztena) June 23, 2022
Additional waves increase the chances of people being reinfected and while there was some who believed that getting infected was actually good for you because it gave you better immunity, that’s actually far from the case…
New data: Reinfection was found to substantially increase the risk of death, hospitalization, and adverse health outcomes, making strategies preventing reinfection critical.
Summary ? 1/9 pic.twitter.com/DUDpePgRce— Sabina Vohra-Miller (@SabiVM) June 22, 2022
The number and variety of variants also continues to be a concern…
Omicron had ushered in a pandemic within a pandemic. Each successive BA variant has expressed new selective advantages & yielded less to our hope for durable immunity. Risk mitigation cannot be stressed enough. Again. https://t.co/uSne9VwZ90
— Abdu Sharkawy (@SharkawyMD) June 23, 2022
One newer theory I came across is that Covid may create an active, permanent viral reservoir in your body (which one person replies is similar to how the herpes virus functions.)
As to 63 patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), "Strikingly, we detect SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen in a majority of the PASC patients up to 12 months post-diagnosis, suggesting the presence of an active persistent SARSCoV-2 viral reservoir."https://t.co/zrD3h0yW0X
— Hiroshi Yasuda (????) (@Yash25571056) June 23, 2022