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> All the evidence is showing that this natural immunity is superior to vaccines Does it? The evidence I've seen indicates that it's robust, but not necessaril
by Marsymars 5y ago
> All the evidence is showing that this natural immunity is superior to vaccines
Does it? The evidence I've seen indicates that it's robust, but not necessarily superior to vaccines.
- criticaltinker 5y agoI concur, the available evidence indicates that naturally acquired immunity works at least as well as vaccination [1][2]. There are biological reasons & theories why naturally acquired immunity may be more robust to variants (immune system learns to target a variety of markers/proteins of the virus, compared to the highly targeted immune response to the spike protein based mRNA vaccines). However to my knowledge there is no conclusive evidence of this yet in the literature on SARS-CoV-2. [1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf [2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v3.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...