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Your article only suggests that getting vaccinated after infection is still better than not getting vaccinated after infection. The point I made was that vacci
by erhk 5y ago
Your article only suggests that getting vaccinated after infection is still better than not getting vaccinated after infection.
The point I made was that vaccination is not more robust than being infected, or at least dont assume it is without solid evidence to support it.
- kurthr 5y agoAll of the articles you are referring to are for acute/mild/moderate cases of COVID and do not cover to the significant number (particularly in younger cases) of asymptomatic and still infectious carriers, which I specifically called out in both the first and second post. The whole point is that the adaptive immune system doesn't really ramp up for many days up to weeks, while viral load typically peaks at 3-5 days. That's why the second shot is typically delayed for the MRNA vaccines. A young asymptomatic carrier with a strong innate response who recovers early is unlikely to develop a significant adaptive immune response (e.g. test positive on an antibody serology) thus they are also then very unlikely to develop durable immunity.