NY COVID reinfection and breakthrough rates are soaring. And this new BA.5 study may help explain why
Even though new case rates and, more importantly, hospital admissions and deaths, are a fraction of what they were in January and at other points throughout the pandemic, experts and elected officials are renewing pleas for caution with urgency.
That's problematic because COVID reinfection raises the risk of dying of any cause within six months of the last infection by at least 114%, afound. That same research concluded people with two or more confirmed infections also had three times the hospitalization risk. They also had a higher risk of issues from diabetes, lung, heart and neurological problems to fatigue and kidney and digestive disorders.
The BA.5 subvariant of the omicron variant of COVID-19 accounts for about a third of New York City cases being tested for variants, according to the latest data, though experts agree the actual share is likely much higher than reported.amid a pandemic wave that, unlike those that came before it, was not seeing soaring positivity rates coupled with similarly significant increases in hospitalizations.
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