Infected with Delta and 20 days later with Omicron – The unfortunate, triple-vaccinated Spaniard

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Scientists from Spain announced the shortest known time in the world re-infection with coronavirusas woman found to be infected by Ομικρον only 20 days after infection by variant Delta. The 31-year-old Spaniard health he even had fully vaccinated and he had also done reinforcing third dose 12 days before re-infection with the Omicron variant.

The unusual case of a woman who “stuck” a coronavirus twice in just three weeks, presented by her researchers Catalan Institute of Healthheaded by Dr. Christina Gutierrez-Fornesat this year’s conference European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Lisbon. During the first infection of her in December the woman was asymptomaticwhile at second in January appeared cough, fever and fatigue.

Genetic analysis showed that was infected by two different variants. The researchers point out that “this case highlights the possibility of the Omicron variant to escapes previous immunity acquired either after disease with other variants or after vaccination. In other words, people with Covid-19 should not assume that they are protected against re-infection, even if they have been fully vaccinated. “Nevertheless, both the previous infection with other variants and the vaccination do seem to protect to some extent those who are infected with Omicron from serious illness and hospitalization.”

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