recrudescence

He knows that a recrudescence of public concerns over coverage of preexisting conditions would be electoral poison.

“I don’t think this is reinfection. I think this is recrudescence of the original infection.”

The convergence of several crises — the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme inequality, the recrudescence of racist and fascist movements, and the existential danger of climate change — demands something like that today.

“If there’s recrudescence happening frequently, and people are getting severely ill the second time around, that’s potentially its own problem,” she said.

Either way, she says there can be a “recrudescence of symptomatology”.