{"id":1254,"date":"2021-03-25T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:14:20","slug":"whats-the-risk-of-reinfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"What’s the risk of reinfection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Question:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0In our continuing talks with my sister-in-law about\u00a0vaccination, she says she believes she has had Covid before. What’s the risk of reinfection? I have heard it’s low but would like to hear the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I have a few issues with the premise of this question.\u00a0 First, if your sister-in-law believes she has had COVID before, it sounds like that belief was never confirmed (e.g. with a positive test), in which case it would be safest to assume that she has never been infected.\u00a0 Second, even if she has been infected, we don’t know how long her immunity lasts.\u00a0 Third, we know that vaccination is a safer way to build protection than (re)infection.\u00a0 CDC recommends that everyone who is eligible be vaccinated, regardless of whether they have already had COVID (see below paragraph). All that said, let me get back to your question! Here’s a rundown of some of what we know and don’t know about reinfection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n