A healthcare worker in Spain contracted COVID twice, two different strains of SARS-CoV-2, in just 20 days, a grim new record in the spread of the virus - via healthing_ca healthing health healthnews covid19 healthcare
“It put strain on my husband, who works full-time and is our sole provider,” she told CTV. “Not only does he have to work long hours, but he had to take on additional work at home, caring for the family, grocery shopping, meal prepping, and getting our younger one to and from his extracurriculars, school and sports, which resulted in him having to miss work on occasion.
. She first tested positive on a PCR test on Dec. 20, 2021, during a routine work screening. She had no symptoms, but isolated for ten days, as was routine. Just 20 days after her first positive test, on Jan. 10, 2022, the woman tested positive on another PCR test. This time she had several COVID symptoms, including a fever and cough.When genome sequencing was performed on her positive tests, analysts determined that she had caught two different strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID: first Delta, then Omicron.European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious DiseasesDr.
that the situation makes it clear that Omicron can “evade the previous immunity acquired either from a natural infection with other variants or from vaccines.”“In other words, people who have had COVID-19 cannot assume they are protected against reinfection, even if they have been fully vaccinated,” she said. “Nevertheless, both previous infection with other variants and vaccination do seem to partially protect against severe disease and hospitalization in those with Omicron.
Catching COVID twice was fairly unusual until the emergence of Omicron, a highly contagious variant that spread quickly towards the end of 2021. Not all provinces have released information about how many people have been re-infected, and case-tracking
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