Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease From COVID-19: Study
… a cohort of over 353,000 people
… contracted COVID-19 … between Feb. 28, 2020, and April 28, 2021
… excluding approximately 87,500 people with a vaccination
… Just 1,304 reinfections were identified … 0.4 percent of people
… odds of severe disease were 0.1 times that of primary infection
… No cases of death were recorded among those who got infected a second time
… for a person who has already had a primary infection, the risk of having a severe reinfection is only approximately 1% of the risk of a previously uninfected person
… people who have recovered from COVID-19 enjoy high levels of immunity against reinfection, and even higher protection against severe disease and death
New England Journal of Medicine
