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> The problem with natural immunity is that it can be so variable. Some people would develop better immunity from being infected than they would from just the v
by Filligree 5y ago
> The problem with natural immunity is that it can be so variable. Some people would develop better immunity from being infected than they would from just the vaccine, but some would develop much weaker immunity from the infection.
And some will develop autoimmune disorders. The mRNA vaccines being highly specific is an important safety feature.
- acjohnson55 5y agoHere's an interesting article I just found, which discuesses the virus-autoimmunity connection: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01835-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01835-w
- dtech 5y agoIt's been theorized for a while. For Multiple Sclerosis - an autoimmune nerve disease - a curious phenomenon is that 100% of patients have been infected with EBV, the cause of mono, while the base rate in the population is about 90%.