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If You Already Have Been Infected by COVID Are You Protected?

Short answer is, no!

I know one person who believes that since she and her entire family had COVID previously, they are protected from being infected again.

Here is this factoid: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study last fall that showed that people who had already had Covid-19 were five times more likely to be reinfected with it than those people who were fully vaccinated against the virus. Virologist Sabra Klein said last spring that "immunity from natural infection starts to decline after six to eight months. We know that fully vaccinated people still have good immunity after a year — and probably longer."
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.