A person waits at a drive-in covid-19 PCR test site in Miami, Florida, in May Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
You have been vaccinated and recently had covid-19, so you don’t have to worry about catching it again, right? Wrong. A large study suggests that every time a person is reinfected, they have additional health risks, both during their immediate illness and in the months afterwards.
“Every reinfection is like rolling the dice again,” says at VA St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri. “A second infection is still bad for you.”
These findings…



