{"id":4863,"date":"2023-10-10T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:17:37","slug":"people-whove-had-covid-at-least-5-times-describe-how-the-illness-changed-with-each-reinfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/10\/people-whove-had-covid-at-least-5-times-describe-how-the-illness-changed-with-each-reinfection\/","title":{"rendered":"People who\u2019ve had Covid at least 5 times describe how the illness changed with each reinfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/covid-5-times-people-describe-illnesses-rcna118132\">NBC News<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly four years after Covid\u2019s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen a few patients with five infections,\u201d said Dr. Grace McComsey, vice dean for clinical and translational research at Case Western University. \u201cSadly, they were immunized and they still got Covid five times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reanna Sunford Clark, a 47-year-old daycare teacher in Portland, Oregon, says she has gotten Covid six times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt does make me concerned that I have this predisposition to it,\u201d Clark said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that the age group she works with isn\u2019t known for clean hands, Clark added, \u201cit makes sense that I am exposing myself to a more likely source \u2014\u00a0but on the flip side of that, I feel like I\u2019ve had it so many times, I should have more immunity than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/covid-5-times-people-describe-illnesses-rcna118132\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s emergence, plenty of people have tested positive at least twice. But an unlucky group has been hit with reinfection after reinfection. \u201cI\u2019ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}