why multiple reinfections worry researchers – Liberation

The unbridled circulation of Covid in the world leaves everyone facing the risk of multiple infections, the possible consequences of which on the immune, cardiovascular and neurological systems worry scientists.

And you, how many times have you caught the Covid? Once, twice, three times? Difficult to escape the Sars-Cov-2 virus, since it entered the national territory in 2020. This disease has settled in our lives and the arrival of the last wave – the ninth (!), decreasing gently – did not push the government to reinstate the wearing of masks in closed places, despite the concomitant presence of two other epidemics of respiratory viruses, bronchiolitis and influenza. You have to live with the virus, and therefore risk catching it, probably several times a few months apart. But at what cost ?

The Covid has consequences beyond the acute phase of the disease. In Germany, the Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, who closely follows scientific studies, says to himself “worry» in the face of reinfect