3 ms·
> Can you show any evidence to your claim that natural immunity is superior? Sure [1] this is pretty well known at this point. From an elementary perspectiv
by OrvalWintermute 5y ago
> Can you show any evidence to your claim that natural immunity is superior?
Sure [1] this is pretty well known at this point.
From an elementary perspective, this is simple math
Spike-Vaccines = Antibody to Protein spike from original Covid
Spike-Vaccine Booster = Antibody to Protein spike from whichever variant
Infection Immunity = Antibodies to spike & other proteins inside the virus & the "Reverse Transcription Defense" [2]. The reverse transcription defense is not well-known at this point, but it is believed to be one of the sources of endogenous viruses found on the human genome (EHV)
One of the papers I read on it stated paraphrased 'these other proteins we see antibodies for in recovered individuals are potential vaccine targets for future vaccines'. However, at this point we do not yet have a vaccine that contains the respective strengths of previous infection based immunity.
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1.full-text https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1....