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> "Natural immunity" to COVID is no different ($) than vaccine immunity You can't find any studies to back this up, can you? It'll be hard without clarificati
by sjwalter 5y ago
> "Natural immunity" to COVID is no different ($) than vaccine immunity
You can't find any studies to back this up, can you?
It'll be hard without clarification at first, because it's not clear what you mean--do you mean "natural immunity" as in somebody who, when encountering the virus for the first time, has an immune system which fights off the infection without any symptoms and low/no transmission to other hosts? If that's what you mean, then no, natural immunity, present in basically everyone sub-40 who's not fat, is far superior to vaccines, because it comes with zero long-term risk and from what everyone can tell has a death rate too small to measure: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00089-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...
If you're talking about someone who has fought off covid and has naturally-produced antibodies, then you have I presume no citation to say it's "as good as vaccines". Natural immunity in every case it's been studied has been shown to be robust, long-lasting, and superior to vaccines. In fact, the survivors of Sars-Cov-1 from back in 2005 still have robust immunity against sars-cov-2. In fact, some large percentage of the population had t-cell reactivity to sars-cov-2 without ever having contact with the virus: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563 https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
It's also super-weird to have people like hold the bar as "vaccine-level immunity". The human body is a genius achievement of evolution, and THAT is the bar.
Zero studies have ever shown any way in which vaccine-based immunity is superior.
And now we have all this talk of boosters. LOL!
Don't need no booster for natural immunity. But there sure are some people who want you to have 'em anyway!
- mmastrac 5y ago> You can't find any studies to back this up, can you? The "($)" which you quoted indicates a reference at the bottom of my comment, where I linked a study that explicitly showed that natural immunity from COVID and vaccine immunity are similar (but fully-vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine is best). I don't believe you're willing to have a conversation in good faith, as you are clearly anti-vaccine. Good day.