Hoping your next bout of COVID might be milder than your first? One study suggests it could be worse:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-24/reinfection-covid-more-severe-new-variants/101178246

Early research suggests that if you catch COVID-19 more than once, you're more likely to face serious health issues.

There had been hope that the health risks associated with contracting COVID-19 would decrease with subsequent infections.

But Nancy Baxter from the School of Population and Global Health at Melbourne University said early research, based on data collected from the US Department of Veterans Affairs database, showed that was not the case.