Exposed to COVID...again

I'm so sick of this COVID shit. I just learned I was exposed on Sunday. I don't have symptoms, and took an at home test and am negative. I believe the Omicron symptoms come on a bit faster. Thoughts?

(I just had COVID about 6 weeks ago, but I know re-infections are common)

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Elessar · 31-35, M

The risk of reinfection is overblown, if you've already had Omicron and have been exposed to Omicron you have ~75% chances of staying negative.

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Elessar · 31-35, M

@swirlie
[i]Effectiveness of a previous pre-Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 15.1% (95% CI: -47.1 to 50.9%), and against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection irrespective of symptoms was 28.3% (95% CI: 11.4 to 41.9%).

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Effectiveness of a previous Omicron infection against symptomatic BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 76.1%[/c] (95% CI: 54.9 to 87.3%), and against any BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was 79.7%[/c] (95% CI: 74.3 to 83.9%).

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Protection of a previous infection against BA.4/BA.5 reinfection was modest when the previous infection involved a preOmicron variant, but strong when the previous infection involved the Omicron BA.1 or BA.2 subvariants.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.11.22277448v1

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It's almost like the misinformed one isn't me.

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Elessar · 31-35, M

@swirlie Rather than admitting the mistake and taking the opportunity to go away and have a bath in humility, you double down. 🥴

If BA.1 / BA.2 exposure grant 79.9% protection *against* heavily mutated BA.4 and BA.5, your odds will be even better against non-mutated BA.1 and BA.2 itself, don't you think?

The fact you're still going off the tangent trying to lecture me on things you evidently don't understand is bullsh*t, if anything.

Prttylttlthng · 46-50, F

@swirlie Agree...recently I read the Omicron immunity may be for up to 20 days now ...if that. These variants are rapidly changing and can evade vaccination and prior infection.

Elessar · 31-35, M

@Prttylttlthng It's just speculation. Hard data, such as like in the study I've referenced above paint a completely different picture.

Most of those who are getting infected, even now with BA.4 and BA.5, are people who were either never infected, or infected with a variant preceding Omicron. Omicron after omicron reinfections are significantly less common.