With Omicron BA.2 Dethroning previously identified BA.1 Subvarians, questions about reinfection were great big. A recent Danish study revealed that it is not impossible to infect two sub-variants of Omicron, but the possibilities are rare. The researchers also suggested the burden of the virus will be less than the second time considering the patient is likely to develop the first immunity.
The new study was led by researchers at the Danish infectious disease authority, Serum Institute Statens (SSI). However, it has not been reviewed by peer-reviewed “We provide evidence that Omicron BA.2 Reinfection is rare but can occur relatively shortly after BA.1 infection,” said the research writer.
Reinfection mostly affects young individuals and is not vaccinated and only causes minor illness, no one causes hospitalization or death, researchers add BA.1 and BA.2 differently up to 40 mutations. While BA.2 contributed more than 88% of cases in Denmark, cases had begun to increase in the UK, South Africa, and Norway.
What says about reinfection?
Previously, the World Health Organization official had said with the Coronavirus variant, unfortunately, it won or escaped with time Explain why the opportunity for high reinfection, which officials say, when you get an infection, your body has a direct defense called natural innate immunity and then you develop what we call cell B and T cells. B cells produce immunoglobulin. You maintain the immunoglobulin for a certain time and then they dropped after three to six months, the official explained.
When the immunity goes down and you will be exposed, and that’s why we have said keep protecting because your immunoglobulin has come down, your first defense line has come down, you can be scanned again.
Omicron wears another Covid variant
Regarding BA.2, who said that there are many ongoing studies that compare different subloints from Omicron -What we know about the transmission, severity and impact of their vaccines “Now among all subvarians, ba.2 is more contagious than BA.1. However, there is no difference in terms of severity.”
Which also shows that all other Coronavirus variants, including Alpha, Beta and Delta, continue to decline globally as Omicron mobilizes them. Among the more than 400,000 sequences of the Covid-19 virus uploaded to the largest virus database in the world last week, more than 98% are Omicron.