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> A third difference is that natural infection only exposes the body to the virus in the respiratory tract (unless the illness is very severe), while the vaccin
by bsedlm 5y ago
> A third difference is that natural infection only exposes the body to the virus in the respiratory tract (unless the illness is very severe), while the vaccine is delivered to muscle, where the immune system may have an even better chance of seeing it and responding vigorously.
But the respiratrory tract is constantly exposed to the external world, wheras the muscles are typically protected by the skin... Therefore I find this fact counterintuitive.
- walterbell 5y agoA marketing person might consider this a way of spinning a known negative into a rhetorical positive. Unless people are being bitten by Covid-bearing mosquitoes, blood serum antibodies aren't going to be seeing virus earlier than the upper respiratory tract.