It was a marathon, not a sprint, he said.<\/p>\n
\"On the other hand, people who have had COVID, we know that reinfection is an issue, we know that new variants evade immunity from ... infection of previous variants.<\/p>\n
\"It almost becomes a game of many people are going to get COVID, you'd like to get it as few times as possible. It's not just a case of once and done, it's once and then potentially a few months later, again.\"<\/p>\n
People who didn't take precautions after infection were likely to get COVID again, O'Neale said.<\/p>\n
He said it may not be a case of needing tougher restrictions but needing better messages about the restrictions we do have.<\/p>\n
\"Maybe that might mean a little bit of support and help for people to follow some of those restrictions.<\/p>\n
\"Take mask wearing as an example of something that's relatively low cost, it's low impact, it's something that as individuals we're all able to do. There are a lot of people out there who are wearing masks, a lot of them aren't wearing them that well - they're wearing them over their mouth, they're not wearing them over their nose for example.\"<\/p>\n
Messaging to explain that COVID is an airborne disease and that a masks needed to be worn in a way that filters the air, was needed to help people to stay safe, he said.<\/p>\n
\"We've been dealing with a pandemic for a long time, it is going to be fatiguing. On the other hand, something that is fatiguing is recovering from COVID and people havinglong COVID and post viral syndromesare a classic disease that leaves people fatigued.\"<\/p>\n
\"If you think the fatigue's bad from wearing a mask, imagine what it is from that post viral syndrome.\"<\/p>\n
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