Research Indicates SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections Likely To Have Similar Severity As Original Infection

Healio (7/12, Feller) reported the “severity of a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection is likely to be similar to the severity of a patient’s initial infection, researchers found.” Healio added, “Or, as the NIH explained in a press release about the new study, ‘severe infections from the virus that causes COVID-19 tend to foreshadow similar severity of infection the next time a person contracts the disease.’” Furthermore, researchers discovered that lower amounts “of albumin could indicate a higher risk for infection and a greater risk for long COVID after an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with a reinfection.” The findings were published in Communications Medicine.