How often can you get Covid?

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Does your immunity still last for months? Today, Explained asked a researcher who has been studying omicron reinfections. This episode of Today, Explained was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Matthew Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained and Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Crucible Moments, a new podcast from Sequoia Capital.
0:05.2	Throughout our lives, each of us will face pivotal choices that can forever change our trajectory.
0:10.3	In business, Sequoia Capital calls these decisions Crucible Moments.
0:14.9	Hosted by Sequoia's Rulafbota, Crucible Moments is a new show that takes you inside the critical
0:20.0	decisions made by the world's most important startups. Crucible Moments is out now and available
0:25.4	everywhere you get your podcasts and at CrucibleMoments.com.
0:56.0	I know someone who got it again in six weeks and some people just laugh at me and are like,
1:00.4	okay, yeah, you're immune for the summer, whatever you say, guy. I don't know what to believe anymore
1:06.5	or who to believe anymore. So, on to explain, we're going to ask a scientist who's been studying
1:13.9	Omicron Reinfections in South Africa, no less, where Omicron was first reported to the World
1:20.0	Health Organization. Answers, at least as far as we know, are coming up.
1:42.3	All right, today explained, Rommas Firm, I felt some degree of relief once I conquered COVID-19
1:47.5	about a month ago because I felt like, okay, maybe now I can go out in the world and not sweat
1:51.2	this thing for a while. And I just want to acknowledge right out of the gate that not everyone feels
1:55.3	that way. My name is Andy Kindler. I'm a stand-up comedian. Andy, for example, who's been in quarantine
2:02.5	since this started back in 2020. From March 11th on, I've been in my house in Los Angeles,
2:09.2	completely masked up. I'm 65 years old. My wife is around the same age. She has asthma. I don't
2:15.5	want to catch any version of COVID. I don't want short COVID. I don't want intermittent COVID. I
2:20.8	want no form of COVID. I mean, just be clear here, I didn't want COVID either, but I did go see
2:26.8	a friend's band when they were on tour and I put myself in a situation where I could get COVID
2:31.4	and I did. Andy's not risking it. We don't know what the long-term effects of all these things
2:37.9	are going to be. And so, you know, like I told my wife, I don't want to fly to Cleveland to do a
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