Even if you got sick during the previous delta, omicron or BA.2 waves, that doesn't mean you're immune from the other coronavirus variants and subvariants that are taking over now. As more variants emerge, including the BA.5 strain, reinfections only become more likely because those variants can potentially evade the immune protection you already have. "If you had delta, you can get omicron — definitely," Dr. Bernard Camins, medical director for infection prevention at the Mount Sinai Health System, told TODAY. And the reverse is true as well; if you had an infection with the omicron variant, you can still get delta. That's because "the spike protein of the delta variant is very different from the spike protein of omicron," Camins said. Click below to find out more about the chances of getting reinfected with COVID-19. |
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