{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/684447180969426944/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fhealth%2Fcovid-reinfection.html&amp;t=MGQzMDExNDU2ZDM2NzBhNjgzMGFmYWRiOTFhNTJmZjlhMTMzZjhkYSxhZGNjMWM5ZjUzOGM1N2Y4ZjYzYzI3MDY1ZjhmZWViMmI2M2JmZDgw&amp;ts=1652739284\",\"display_url\":\"https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fhealth%2Fcovid-reinfection.html&amp;t=MGQzMDExNDU2ZDM2NzBhNjgzMGFmYWRiOTFhNTJmZjlhMTMzZjhkYSxhZGNjMWM5ZjUzOGM1N2Y4ZjYzYzI3MDY1ZjhmZWViMmI2M2JmZDgw&amp;ts=1652739284\",\"title\":\"How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?\",\"description\":\"The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months.\",\"site_name\":\"nytimes.com\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"1a11cdd9ee64565b484792a56941fbc6:c6b8ecf17305e620-fa\",\"type\":\"image/jpeg\",\"width\":1050,\"height\":550}]}'><a href=\"https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F05%2F16%2Fhealth%2Fcovid-reinfection.html&amp;t=MGQzMDExNDU2ZDM2NzBhNjgzMGFmYWRiOTFhNTJmZjlhMTMzZjhkYSxhZGNjMWM5ZjUzOGM1N2Y4ZjYzYzI3MDY1ZjhmZWViMmI2M2JmZDgw&amp;ts=1652739284\" target=\"_blank\">How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?</a></p><p>So, yeah, COVID-19 seems to be following the path of its common cold coronavirus cousins in endemic circulation all along, evolving past immunity to reinfect several times a year.</p><p>It&rsquo;s worth noting that if <i>they</i> had been released on a naive population it would be a problem, but several-annual infections since childhood induce broad resistance such that most infections are barely noticeable.</p><p>I expect that COVID will occupy a similar place (following a route that I assume <i>they</i> once did in [pre]history) and be a background part of the human environment from here on out, with vaccines mostly serving to &ldquo;catch up&rdquo; resistance to those who were already past relatively protected childhood at the time of its debut</p>"}