Honest Q: we know each additional infection increases your risk of long covid. But do we know anything about the timing of infections? Like is 2 infections in six months riskier than 2 infections in a year? (I am making up this timing)

They farther apart your infections are the more vaccines you’ll have gotten in the meantime. I assume how recently you got vaccinated has something to do with LC risk chances

Valid question

I haven't seen anything that had enough data to even propose an answer, but I'd be interested to know.

I’ve had it twice, 2 years apart. I imagine researchers are looking at everything. Because there was no centralized tracking of positive tests, knowing who to study is challenging.

it is hard to emphasize enough how little is known about the immune system in general, and long COVID (or ME/CFS) specifically. the more research i do the more shocking it gets, how much of the science barely explains anything, and is continuously finding new surprising interactions.

i haven't seen any literature on it, but it wouldn't surprise me if timing played a role - timing has been known to play a role for other post-viral syndromes. (infectious mono in your teens/twenties being a risk for developing MS, chickenpox infections being more dangerous in adults, etc)

I'm only a lawyer. But my understanding is that covid is an inflammatory disease. So if all infections are equal, then in theory, more time between infections allows for your body to deflame. But infections aren't equal, so the calculus is suspect.