A top Edinburgh coronavirus expert has warned over the impacts of catching coronavirus twice.
Professor Devi Sridhar has been one of Nicola Sturgeon's top coronavirus advisors during the pandemic, and warned that catching the virus a second time can be worse than the first.
In recent weeks, a number of health officials have claimed that the country is heading for another wave of infections with case numbers rapidly rising.
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Taking to social media, Prof Sridhar shared that the latest research into having coronavirus twice can have a worse impact than the initial infection.
Adding that a re-infection could be "hard to avoid", she said:
"Recent pre-print on COVID re-infections basically says that re-infection (having COVID twice) is worse than once. So yes, a disease to try to avoid.
"Although, given over 90 per cent of people are estimated to have had covid at least once in UK, obviously hard to avoid. Even for those being cautious."
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Speaking earlier this week, Professor Linda Bauld, Professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, issued similar warnings that another wave has already begun.
Harden was asked by BBC Good Morning Scotland host Laura Maxwell if Scotland was in a wave, he replied: "I don't think it feels like it just yet. I think we may well be heading in that direction.
"The difficulty with waves is you only know you're in a wave once you're in it, and it's quite obvious.
"At the moment we've got a bit of an increase in cases which we are tracking very closely. I would suggest that time will tell if we're in a wave when we look back so it's very hard to say for certain.
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