NBC News Three people interviewed said their later infections were less severe than their first ones. Even so, getting Covid over and over takes a mental toll.
Nearly four years after Covid’s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection.
“I’ve seen a few patients with five infections,” said Dr. Grace McComsey, vice dean for clinical and translational research at Case Western University. “Sadly, they were immunized and they still got Covid five times.”
Reanna Sunford Clark, a 47-year-old daycare teacher in Portland, Oregon, says she has gotten Covid six times.
“It does make me concerned that I have this predisposition to it,” Clark said.
Given that the age group she works with isn’t known for clean hands, Clark added, “it makes sense that I am exposing myself to a more likely source — but on the flip side of that, I feel like I’ve had it so many times, I should have more immunity than I do.”