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As a result, it is not always guaranteed that reinfections will present a milder course of disease, he said.

Dale Kalina, an infectious disease doctor at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ont., said he has seen significant variability in the types of symptoms his patients are experiencing during both their first and second infections. “Now that we’ve had it twice, with the difference in severity of symptoms … my fear of catching it again is much reduced, I'm not concerned at this point,” James said.ĭO OMICRON REINFECTIONS PRODUCE MILDER DISEASE?Įxperts, however, caution against this line of thought.Īlthough there is currently little evidence to suggest that COVID-19 reinfections are either more severe or milder than initial infections of the disease, Dr. At the time of the reinfection, the daughters’ symptoms were also milder by comparison, James said.īased on his experience, James said that if he were to get infected with COVID-19 a third time, he anticipates that symptoms would continue to be milder when compared with his previous infections. One daughter had similar symptoms to James, while the other sailed through with just a headache, he said. What’s interesting to note, James said, is that with their initial infection, both of his 16-year-old twin daughters, who were unvaccinated at the time, had different experiences with the disease. CTV News app sign-up: Breaking news alerts and top stories delivered right to you.But having been in contact with friends who also tested positive at the time was confirmation enough for James that he and his family had contracted COVID-19. In December, he and his family were unable to take rapid antigen tests until about two weeks after the onset of symptoms and by then, results came back negative, James said. “It kept trying to do a comeback, so I would start to feel really good and think, ‘Great, I'm off to the races,’ and then that night, all of a sudden, my head pressure would be back my sinus pressure would come storming back,” James said. In addition, James, who was double vaccinated at the time of both infections, said symptoms from the first infection lasted much longer, resolving after about 11 days. The main difference, according to James, was that the symptoms experienced in December were more intense compared to those in March. The family was experiencing common COVID-19 symptoms such as an occasional cough, sinus pressure, a congested nose, fatigue and headaches. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox.What is considered a COVID-19 reinfection?.While James said he was not able to verify the COVID-19 strain he and his family members were infected with, both infections took place as the Omicron variant was taking hold in their home province of Ontario, as well as the rest of Canada. The similarities in symptoms experienced in December and again in March led James, 40, to think he and his family were reinfected with COVID-19, and positive results using a rapid antigen test confirmed this was the case, he said. By the next Friday, I was feeling much better.” “I first started getting a scratchy throat on the Sunday. “The symptoms that we had in March were the same, just not as severe … For sure it was COVID,” he told CTVNews.ca over the phone on Tuesday. More than three months after getting infected with COVID-19 in mid-December, Regan James said he, along with his wife and children, felt the familiar cough, nasal congestion and sense of fatigue settling in for a second time.