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Isn't this literally survivorship bias?

• tomesch1982 5y ago
  That was also my first thought.
• deleted 5y ago
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• defaulty 5y ago
  Sure, but for someone who has already /survived/, it's worth knowing the value of those antibodies. And it's worth knowing that governments should not attack those survivors further for "not getting vaccinated" when they already have antibodies. Worth noting that I'm not anti-vaccine but there's not enough focus on natural immunity. And I'm not encouraging people to forego vaccines and to go lick doorhandles
  • johnchristopher 5y ago
    > And it's worth knowing that governments should not attack those survivors further for "not getting vaccinated" when they already have antibodies. Does delta change that ? Is natural immunity from a previous variant as effective against delta ?
    • JumpCrisscross 5y ago
      > Is natural immunity from a previous variant as effective against delta? This study's data come from during Israel's Delta-variant surge, so yes.
• haroldship 5y ago
  1) possibly, but in Israel nearly all deaths are over 60 but most infections are not so maybe not so much 2) depends on the question: if you ask if you should get vaccinated or get covid, then yes. If you ask whether it’s as safe to be around a recovered as a vaccinated, then not really
• 1e-9 5y ago
  No, there is no survivorship bias apparent here. The samples appear to be representative of the populations they were investigating. They were looking at the risk of infection. Dead people don’t get infected, so they were not part of the populations studied.