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Is there anything to support this fearmongering? From all I’ve heard subsequent infections tend to be more benign - which is how the immune system usually works

Is there anything to support this fearmongering? From all I’ve heard subsequent infections tend to be more benign - which is how the immune system usually works.

D_Alex 4y ago
- peteradio 4y ago
  "I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody, but really for people that have risk factors for severe disease," he says, because veterans tend to be older and have more health conditions." This is not a controlled study, its comparative across number of reinfections. There can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected. If your health is poor you will be overall more likely to experience death etc as well as symptomatic Covid infection.
  - D_Alex 4y ago
    >"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans... It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though. >here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected But the study is about the severity of reinfection rather than the frequency
    - peteradio 4y ago
      You are implying this study shows more reinfections causes rather than is merely coorelated with poor condition. Nothing wrong with doing the study but you can't just ignore confounders to the point you are attempting to drive.
- pantalaimon 4y ago
  > heaps This is a single study involving elderly people with chronic conditions that got hospitalized. This will obviously inflict some selection bias
  - D_Alex 4y ago
    >This is a single study How many studies will convince you?
    - heurisko 4y ago
      The one study you cited didn't support your original claim > Unless we find a proper vaccine, today's children will live their whole life with this disease. Spending an extra week sick each year, accumulating organ damage and maybe dying at the age of 50 after their twentieth bout of covid. > He says the extra risks are more likely among the elderly, the immunocompromised, and people with other medical conditions.

Is there anything to support this fearmongering? From all I’ve heard subsequent infections tend to be more benign - which is how the immune system usually works.

D_Alex 4y ago

peteradio 4y ago
"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody, but really for people that have risk factors for severe disease," he says, because veterans tend to be older and have more health conditions." This is not a controlled study, its comparative across number of reinfections. There can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected. If your health is poor you will be overall more likely to experience death etc as well as symptomatic Covid infection.
- D_Alex 4y ago
  >"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans... It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though. >here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected But the study is about the severity of reinfection rather than the frequency
  - peteradio 4y ago
    You are implying this study shows more reinfections causes rather than is merely coorelated with poor condition. Nothing wrong with doing the study but you can't just ignore confounders to the point you are attempting to drive.
pantalaimon 4y ago
> heaps This is a single study involving elderly people with chronic conditions that got hospitalized. This will obviously inflict some selection bias
- D_Alex 4y ago
  >This is a single study How many studies will convince you?
  - heurisko 4y ago
    The one study you cited didn't support your original claim > Unless we find a proper vaccine, today's children will live their whole life with this disease. Spending an extra week sick each year, accumulating organ damage and maybe dying at the age of 50 after their twentieth bout of covid. > He says the extra risks are more likely among the elderly, the immunocompromised, and people with other medical conditions.