Examples of reinfection in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web People who have survived COVID-19 should still get vaccinated, because the shots provide better protection against reinfection than natural immunity, officials say. — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021 Experts estimate that more than 100 million people in the country have recovered from an infection — the vast majority of whom remain protected against reinfection for now. — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021 Young people not protected by prior infection, study suggests Antibodies produced by a COVID-19 infection do not completely protect young people against reinfection, according to a longitudinal study of more than 3,000 healthy U.S. Marines. — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2021 The trial, run by researchers at the Oxford University, seeks to investigate how the immune system reacts to exposure to the virus for the second time and understand what immune responses protect against reinfection, Reuters reported. — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 The study suggested that about 86% of those infected had developed effective antibodies, but the other 14% hadn’t, leaving them open to possible reinfection. — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021 Viruses mutate all the time, but health experts have been afraid that dangerous variants could emerge in countries with large populations of immunocompromised people—such as those with HIV—who are especially vulnerable to reinfection by a variant. — WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021 Fauci explained that masks can help protect against coronavirus variants that are spreading rapidly in the U.S. and could potentially lead to reinfection for people who already had the virus. — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2021 While most people are unlikely to get the disease again for at least six months, the elderly are more prone to reinfection, according to the results published Wednesday in the Lancet. — Anne Pollak, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2021

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