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According to the Mirror, BA.5 has become the new dominant infection in several countries all over the globe with med having long found those who are infected with Covid then have a level of immunity in the weeks afterwards. However one specific strain, BA.5, has cast doubt on this with patients reporting falling positive again within a short while of recovering from Covid.
Andrew Roberston, chief health officer in Western Australia, told News.com.au: “What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then becoming infected after four weeks. So maybe six to eight weeks they are developing a second infection, and that’s almost certainly BA.4 or BA.5.”
Immunology professor Danny Altmann, author of a recent paper on the strain wrote in the Guardian how Omicron infections were a “poor booster” of immunities to other Omicron infections.
He added: “Most people – even when triple-vaccinated – had 20 times less neutralising antibody response against Omicron than against the initial ‘Wuhan’ strain. Omicron infection was a poor booster of immunity to further Omicron infections”.
According to the Mirror, BA.5 has become the new dominant infection in several countries all over the globe with med having long found those who are infected with Covid then have a level of immunity in the weeks afterwards. However one specific strain, BA.5, has cast doubt on this with patients reporting falling positive again within a short while of recovering from Covid.
Andrew Roberston, chief health officer in Western Australia, told News.com.au: “What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then becoming infected after four weeks. So maybe six to eight weeks they are developing a second infection, and that’s almost certainly BA.4 or BA.5.”
Immunology professor Danny Altmann, author of a recent paper on the strain wrote in the Guardian how Omicron infections were a “poor booster” of immunities to other Omicron infections.
He added: “Most people – even when triple-vaccinated – had 20 times less neutralising antibody response against Omicron than against the initial ‘Wuhan’ strain. Omicron infection was a poor booster of immunity to further Omicron infections”.
