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Based on the comments, 75% of recurrences are sister in laws so if you’re not one you have a smaller chance of getting it again.
D1, you don’t need to be married, you can be sister in law of your brother’s wife!
Epidemiologist here.
Yes, it happens, because:
(1) there is no hard black-and-white rule that Covid (or any infection) last exactly 3 weeks or whatever. This is a population average based on a big distribution, for which there will always be outliers due to a huge range of factors. Approximately 90% of people who are infected with Covid variants we've seen thus far stop being symptomatic or infectious after a few weeks (frankly we need more data to characterize this exactly) but a small % naturally have chronic infections and will shed virus for a long time (sometimes months!), as their bodies are not be able to clear it in the usual amount of time... This is also per evolutionary bio-math modelling the most likely source of new variants like Delta and Om, which is almost inevitable as long as transmission rates are high in a big diverse population.
(2) a small % also have breakthrough infections because their B-cells never quite map the right kind and amount of neutralizing antibodies to the virus, and other parts of the immune response like T-cells are also insufficient. Maybe the first time of naturally acquired infection you got a small dose and it wasn't enough to induce sufficient immunity but the 2nd time your body encountered ncov-2019 in the wild it was a big overwhelming dose. (this is part of why vaccines are good btw - scientists quantitatively optimize antigen quantities and mechanism of delivery for max immune response with min side effect/target safety profile and then push this standardized dosage to the population)
Yes, my sister in law had it within 2 weeks of each other. She also does literally nothing to avoid it though.
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Yup, had an old high school friend get Delta over summer then omicron in December. I know she’s vaxxed but don’t know if she’s boosted and has never really tried to be careful all covid, so not surprised.
And omicron has sub-variants (like the cold/flu) which is why you’re able to catch it multiple times.
My doctor told me it’s highly unlikely for 90 days due to antibodies but it’s possible. And to that point, my sister in law who was quarantined with us when we all had COVID, got it a second time within 30 days.
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Different variants, so yes.. normal.
My friend’s manager got covid again 2 weeks after she recovered
Yep she had really mild symptoms both times thankfully!
My SIL was a “breakthrough case” post vaccination in April, and then she got boostered and got COVID again in December. 🤷🏼♀️
But remember, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated
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Yes, it happened to PFT
They’re also now saying omicron when it’s mild doesn’t really build immunity so I’m sure that’s possible!