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Ashwin Swaminathan, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, Australian National University

There are still good reasons to avoid catching COVID again – for one, your risk of long COVID goes up each time

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Like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Obrador before him, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been infected with COVID for a second time.

In the middle of this year’s fourth Omicron wave, Albanese’s reinfection should not come as a surprise. Population antibody surveys have shown roughly half of Australian adults had COVID at least once by mid-2022.

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