> heaps

This is a single study involving elderly people with chronic conditions that got hospitalized.

This will obviously inflict some selection bias

>This is a single study

How many studies will convince you?

The one study you cited didn't support your original claim

> Unless we find a proper vaccine, today's children will live their whole life with this disease. Spending an extra week sick each year, accumulating organ damage and maybe dying at the age of 50 after their twentieth bout of covid.

> He says the extra risks are more likely among the elderly, the immunocompromised, and people with other medical conditions.

"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody, but really for people that have risk factors for severe disease," he says, because veterans tend to be older and have more health conditions."

This is not a controlled study, its comparative across number of reinfections. There can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected. If your health is poor you will be overall more likely to experience death etc as well as symptomatic Covid infection.

>"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans...

It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though.

>here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected

But the study is about the severity of reinfection rather than the frequency

You are implying this study shows more reinfections causes rather than is merely coorelated with poor condition. Nothing wrong with doing the study but you can't just ignore confounders to the point you are attempting to drive.