Mea Walton got her first infection in September 2020 and her fourth at the start of this year
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For Mea Walton, the new year began with something akin to disbelief. About to take a flight to LA, she took a PCR test to check for Covid – and it came back positive. But it wasn’t her first infection, or even her second. Walton had tested positive for the fourth time.
“I thought, surely, I could never get it again,” she said.