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Immediate vaccination does not inhibit long term protection. If the vaccine efficacy wanes to a significant degree (which is not a given for each individual),
by hcknwscommenter 5y ago
Immediate vaccination does not inhibit long term protection. If the vaccine efficacy wanes to a significant degree (which is not a given for each individual), then you are still in a better place than having never been vaccinated. The safest way to get covid is as a vaccinated person. Not the other way round. There is no "tak[ing] one for the team" here.
- angelzen 5y agoThe immune system is more complicated than that. I have no answer on what the correct strategy is, but I contest the blanket statement that taking the vaccine has zero impact on long term protection. We need actual long term data and actual control populations. On the doctrine of original antigenic sin https://www.jstor.org/stable/985534 https://www.jstor.org/stable/985534 Original Antigenic Sin: How First Exposure Shapes Lifelong Anti–Influenza Virus Immune Responses https://www.jimmunol.org/content/202/2/335 https://www.jimmunol.org/content/202/2/335 Original Antigenic Sin: the Downside of Immunological Memory and Implications for COVID-19 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00056-21 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00056-21
- hcknwscommenter 5y agoWe have over a decade of data on this for coronaviruses.