Risk of cardiovascular events and death according to COVID-19 reinfection.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly changed the health care system and turned medical services dysfunctional [1, 2]. During the pandemic, many reports were heard about the impact of COVID-19 infection on the cardiovascular system [3–5]. We now have access to much larger studies that reveal this phe nomenon not only in the context of one infection but also reinfection. Data from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs’ national healthcare database shows that each severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection raises the probability of death, being hospitalized, and developing long-term effects on different or gans and systems.