{"id":75260,"date":"2022-02-07T02:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T02:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=75260"},"modified":"2022-02-07T02:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T02:32:50","slug":"people-getting-covid-twice-little-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=75260","title":{"rendered":"Why people are getting Covid twice in as little as one month"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is completely possible to get Covid-19 a second time, even weeks after the initial infection and Omicron is most likely the reason you could test positive again.<\/p>\n

Epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett told Yahoo News Australia it is entirely possible to get reinfected, particularly if you’re hit with a different strain.<\/p>\n

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“A lot of people in December were reporting infections more consistent with Delta, we saw probably more people with Delta in hospital at that point that time,” Professor Bennett said.<\/p>\n

“Your chances of Delta were a bit higher at the end of last year, and then your exposure to Omicron was almost universal, if you were in the cities with the big outbreaks in January.”<\/p>\n

But getting the Delta strain does not guarantee protection against Omicron, in fact, some people are saying they are testing positive for Covid just weeks after their first infection.<\/p>\n

However, Prof Bennett said it was less likely\u00a0to get infected with the same variant twice.<\/p>\n

“We don’t expect people to have Omicron and then Omicron again in a few weeks time,” she said.<\/p>\n

“That’s less likely because they’ve got\u00a0quite a specific immune response to Omicron.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, we don’t know how long that immunity lasts and what their risk might be down the track, and that’s why boosters are really important.”<\/p>\n

While a Delta infection doesn’t mean you are guaranteed protection against Omicron, Prof Bennett said Omicron may offer “a bit” of protection against Delta.<\/p>\n

Prof Bennett also noted people don’t usually know which strain of Covid-19 they have<\/p>\n\n

Sydney woman tests positive twice in one month<\/h2>\n

One woman from Sydney, Nat Sorensen, tested positive for Covid twice already this year.<\/p>\n

She told news.com.au she was “shocked” and said it was “pretty unlucky”.<\/p>\n

Several people in the comments of her first video also said they had also been reinfected with Covid in a very short amount of time.<\/p>\n

On TikTok, Ms Sorensen said she was fully-vaccinated against Covid-19, and when one viewer questioned whether she had produced a false positive, she insisted she had some “pretty clear Covid symptoms”.<\/p>\n

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