Scientists have found that asthma and nicotine addiction are associated with cases of reinfection with coronavirus. These are the results of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care.
They found that 63 of 9,119 patients (0.7%) with severe COVID-19 infection contracted the virus a second time, with an average re-infection period of 116 days. medicine.missouri.edu… Of the 63 re-infected, two (3.2%) died.
It is noted that with reinfection, the incidence of pneumonia, heart failure, and acute kidney injury was significantly lower than with the primary infection.
“This is one of the largest studies of its kind in the US, and it is important to note here that reinfection with COVID-19 after the initial case is possible, and the duration of the immunity provided by the initial infection is not entirely clear,” said lead researcher Adnan Qureshi.
As reported OBOZREVATEL previously, the German company CureVac, which recently introduced a vaccine of its own production, published the results drug testing. The data obtained showed that the vaccine was only 47% effective.
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