[asdff]

Anecdotally I know a family where every member tested positive for COVID in the spring with severe symptoms at the time. They recovered, then over thanksgiving they started experiencing very mild symptoms (some none at all, others loss of taste and smell to more typical cold like symptoms), and all tested positive once again.

It might be that after you contracted COVID once, or a particular strain of COVID once, that you have a heightened immune response and less severe symptoms when you do catch the disease again. It is hard to say for sure what is going on from an isolated case, but this certainly doesn't bode well.

[jdhn]

>but this certainly doesn't bode well

How doesn't it bode well? If you get one strain of covid, get over it, then catch another strain and your symptoms are much less than the first time due to your body having the proper defenses against covid, then that's your immune system working as intended.

[asdff]

It doesn't bode well that you can get it twice to begin with.

[jdhn]

Is it impossible to get a cold twice in one season? If so, why is catching covid twice a bad thing, especially if the second time is a lot milder than the first time, even for people who experience mild symptoms the first time?

[babyscully]

Do you not understand that this means you can spread it twice?

[dzhiurgis]

Seemingly not at same rate tho. I guess some specialist can explain it better, but afaik there are some viruses and vaccines where you can spread and some you don’t.

For covid there’s no data yet, but my hunch says it reduces spread only slightly.

[tjpnz]

It doesn't bode well for people who have lung scarring and neurological damage.