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This is anecdotal. There are people getting infected (and even sick) whilst being vaccinated as well. The vast majority of people however, are not.
by Pozzuh 5y ago
This is anecdotal. There are people getting infected (and even sick) whilst being vaccinated as well. The vast majority of people however, are not.
- Pyramus 5y agoYou are correct, but that doesn't mean it's anecdotal. At this point we don't know whether natural immunity is 'better' than vaccine induced immunity, and it could go either way. There are many disease (including viral ones!) for which the vaccines are orders of magnitude more effective [1]. The simple reason being that the vaccines have the spike protein as a marker - the part of the virus that we expect is least likely to change significantly. What we do know is that the current Delta variant, which is a fitness escape but also partly an immune escape, has infected a number of people that had the vanilla variant. [1] https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1412865782862725125 https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1412865782862725125
- zajio1am 5y ago> You are correct, but that doesn't mean it's anecdotal. At this point we don't know whether natural immunity is 'better' than vaccine induced immunity, and it could go either way. There is this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8 saying that natural immunity seems to be slightly worse than Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, but better than AstraZeneca or Johnson vaccine.
- adamors 5y agoThe claim was > previously infected’s antibodies are equal-to or better than the vaccine Better how? If they still get reinfected (and they do) then how is this quantified?