How to Use reinfection in a Sentence

reinfection

noun
  • Always clean up the peony beds well in the fall to help prevent reinfection next year.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • That test could also show whether people who did get sick are immune from reinfection.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2020
  • At this juncture, there is little data on the reinfection rates of each strain.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2021
  • An ideal vaccine would reduce your risk of reinfection for years, even decades.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The best way to prevent again reinfection is to practice good hygiene.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • So far a handful of reinfection cases have been recorded since the start of the outbreak late last year.
    — Suzi Ring, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • And in cases where reinfection causes no symptoms or just mild ones, people might still spread the virus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • But immunity may have waned in the months since, raising the risk of reinfection.
    — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 25 May 2023
  • 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
  • That revealed key findings about reinfection rates in the country.
    — Alice Park, Time, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The study also found that omicron poses a higher risk of reinfection.
    — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Clean up and dispose of any fallen diseased leaves to help prevent a cycle of reinfection.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • And each reinfection is a fresh opportunity for the virus to win the battle.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Most studies have found that immunity guarding against reinfection with the same norovirus strain lasts less than six months.
    — Patricia L. Foster, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Once cleaned, the canal is filled with a rubber-like material and sealed to prevent reinfection.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The median time between the first illness and reinfection was about 9 months.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 24 Nov. 2021
  • What does reinfection do to the body — particularly in terms of long Covid?
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • The researchers said the reinfection was discovered when the patient returned from a trip to Spain last month.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Work by researchers in Hong Kong finds that reinfection may be possible in rare cases.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The report notes the findings are a reminder about the risks of reinfection for those who are immunocompromised.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That variant is more infectious and also seems to be a source of reinfection among people who were thought to be immune to the coronavirus.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Fauci then explained that the studies Paul cited about reinfection don’t factor in the threat of variants.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • That means that the human body will probably retain a memory of the virus for at least a few years and should be protected from reinfection, at least in the short-term.
    — Fox News, 14 May 2020
  • The new trial is focused on probing the boundaries of human immunity and the effects of the virus on the body from the moment of reinfection.
    — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Other reinfection cases have been found in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ecuador.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Most adults born before the 1960s were exposed to the virus as children and likely are not vulnerable to reinfection.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019

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