As COVID-19 sweeps through the community, some people are avoiding it altogether, and some of us are unlucky enough to be getting it twice or more.

So do we build up immunities over time, or does contracting the virus more than once raise the risk of making us more sick?

The scientific jury, it seems, is still out.

A controversial study released in June suggests reinfections could increase people’s risk of bad outcomes.

Extracting healthcare data, it concluded US veterans who had been reinfected were three times more likely to be hospitalised and twice as likely to be dead.

But other experts have their doubts.

Today on Please Explain, national science reporter Liam Mannix joins Bianca Hall to discuss the latest evidence about COVD-19 reinfections.

As COVID-19 sweeps through the community, some people are avoiding it altogether, and some of us are unlucky enough to be getting it twice or more.
So do we build up immunities over time, or does contracting the virus more than once raise the risk of making us more sick?
The scientific jury, it seems, is still out.
A controversial study released in June suggests reinfections could increase people’s risk of bad outcomes.
Extracting healthcare data, it concluded US veterans who had been reinfected were three times more likely to be hospitalised and twice as likely to be dead.
But other experts have their doubts.
Today on Please Explain, national science reporter Liam Mannix joins Bianca Hall to discuss the latest evidence about COVD-19 reinfections.

The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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