How to Use reinfection in a Sentence

reinfection

noun

• The reinfection rate in Lake County for the week is 16.6%, according to the state site.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• And a booster dose, like a previous bout with the virus, does seem to decrease the chance of reinfection — but not by much.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• What that means for reinfection is still a bit unclear.
  — Lela Moore, SELF, 20 July 2022
• The reinfection era began in earnest last winter, when the Omicron variant first spread around the globe.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2022
• At this juncture, there is little data on the reinfection rates of each strain.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2021
• But immunity may have waned in the months since, raising the risk of reinfection.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 25 May 2023
• At the least, the CDC said, cases of Covid rebound don't appear to be related to reinfection.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 May 2022
• The best way to prevent again reinfection is to practice good hygiene.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• But the risk of reinfection could climb as time passes, as well as if the virus mutates to evade immunity.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• And in cases where reinfection causes no symptoms or just mild ones, people might still spread the virus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• The median time between the first illness and reinfection was about 9 months.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
• Any infection in the past three months gives you about the same level of protection against reinfection as a booster will.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
• What does reinfection do to the body — particularly in terms of long Covid?
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• Jameel says Centaurus does not pose a big reinfection risk to people who caught BA.5.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• The researchers rated the risk of reinfection as less than 1% a month for at least 10 months following the initial infection.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• The known reinfection rate there jumped to 13.3% from late December to mid-January.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• The study also found that omicron poses a higher risk of reinfection.
  — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 14 Dec. 2021
• In some instances, reinfection occurred in as little as six months.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
• For most of last year, many of us called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to release its data on reinfection rates, but the agency refused.
  — Marty Makary, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• Similar to a vaccine, the longer from infection, the more likely for reinfection.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The researchers estimated that the risk of reinfection with the omicron variant is roughly 2.4 times the risk seen with the original version of the coronavirus.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2021
• That reduced chances of reinfection by about 80 percent.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• Anyone can be at risk for reinfection, health experts said, regardless of age or health status.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• Masking, staying home when sick and getting all eligible booster shots can help cut the risk of reinfection, Al-Aly said.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Are those just stories, or is reinfection really more common now, with the BA.5 variant?
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2022
• That is worrisome news at a time when the only vaccines available are tailored to the first iteration of the virus and is not stellar at holding up against reinfection.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• And Torres, the shortstop, had Covid-19 last year, indicating that his case is both a breakthrough infection and a reinfection.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 18 May 2021
• The authors of that separate study say their results point to a higher risk for reinfection, even in people who have some prior immunity against the virus.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 June 2022
• Pulliam and her colleagues estimated that the risk of reinfection with the omicron variant is roughly 2.4 times greater than the risk seen with the original version of the coronavirus.
  — Lynsey Chutel, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• Keep in mind that reinfection occurs in roughly one in five people within three months of receiving treatment.
  — Mikayla Morell, Health, 13 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024