How to Avoid Getting Sick With Covid, Again
A woman blowing her nose with a tissue.
Photographer: Yui Mok/PA WireHi, it’s Lisa in London, where I’m doing my best to avoid a Covid reinfection amid increasing anecdotes of people testing positive for the virus. But before we get to that...
It’s been more than two years since I was infected with Covid which developed into long Covid, and my life has not been the same since. It was my first positive test, but it’s possible that I caught the virus in March 2020 when mass testing wasn’t yet available. Back then, I had already started self-isolating before national lockdowns were implemented and I didn’t think much of this bout of sickness until years later, when I heard that repeat infections could increase the risk of developing long Covid.