{"id":16365,"date":"2020-12-22T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2021-02-07T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:06:44","slug":"can-you-catch-covid-19-more-than-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16365","title":{"rendered":"Can you catch COVID-19 more than once?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for you question.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are cases of repeat infections where people get COVID-19 again after a first infections.<\/p>\n<p>This article reports five cases in detail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 reinfection can occur after varying times and with more severe disease<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/39136\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/39136<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comment in the article also links to a website that records more than 2000 suspected cases and 30 that were confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>This is still a relatively small number compared to the millions of cases of COVID-19. However it could easily underestimate the real risk.<\/p>\n<p>This is because many more people might have had a first illness that had no symptoms. Or the second infection might not have symptoms. In both cases the dual infection would not be reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is one of more than 65 questions about COVID vaccines. It was produced by and for people living with HIV.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16330\"><strong>Q&amp;A on COVID vaccines: are they safe and effective?<br \/>\n<\/strong>https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16330<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for you question. Unfortunately, there are cases of repeat infections where people get COVID-19 again after a first infections. This article reports five cases in detail. COVID-19 reinfection can occur after varying times and with more severe disease https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/39136 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}