• Tue. Apr 21st, 2026

Alternative.Media

News which may not be found on mainstream media.

John Campbell

Can I catch omicron twice?

Bywebmaster

Feb 28, 2024



Yes you can but the chance is only 1 in 38,279 infections

Occurrence and significance of

Omicron BA.1 infection followed by BA.2 reinfection

Department of Virus and Microbiological Special Diagnostics, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

https://bit.ly/3s5QYWt

Omicron carries numerous mutations in key regions and is associated with increased transmissibility and immune escape.

Omicron BA.1 and BA.2

Whether BA.2 specifically can escape the natural immunity acquired shortly after a BA.1 infection

N = 1,8 million infections

November 22, 2021, until February 11, 2022

Individuals with two positive samples, more than 20 and less than 60 days apart

From a total of 187 reinfection cases, we identified 47 instances of BA.2 reinfections shortly after a BA.1 infection,

(So from 1,800,000 million, 47 did and 1,799.853 didn’t)

mostly in young unvaccinated individuals with mild disease not resulting in hospitalization or death.

In conclusion, we provide evidence that Omicron BA.2 reinfections do occur shortly after BA.1 infections but are rare.

Source

By webmaster

Related Post

John Campbell
Long term COVID
Dec 6, 2025 webmaster
John Campbell
Pandemic learning from Japan
Dec 5, 2025 webmaster
John Campbell
Coronavirus survival
Dec 4, 2025 webmaster
76 thoughts on “Can I catch omicron twice?”

  9. Thank you for some other magnificent article. The place else may anybody get that type of information in such a perfect method of writing? I have a presentation subsequent week, and I’m on the look for such information.

    Reply

  18. obviously like your website however you need to take a look at the spelling on several of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very troublesome to tell the truth then again I will surely come back again.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *