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I just don’t understand the whole natural immunity vs vaccine debate. If you want natural immunity the safest way to achieve that is be to have a breakthrough
by pfisherman 5y ago
I just don’t understand the whole natural immunity vs vaccine debate. If you want natural immunity the safest way to achieve that is be to have a breakthrough infection after being vaccinated.
My guess is that maybe people overestimate the risk of getting the vaccine? But that also seems to be crazy since COVID has killed over over half a million people in the US and over 1/3 of the US population has taken the vaccine and been fine - the most common bad reaction is being wiped out for a day.
- angelzen 5y agoThe difficulty is that the immune system is not linear. I am far from being an expert, but terms like ADE and original antigenic sin are part of the literature. This is not to say which approach is better, it is only a caveat that thinking in additive terms is just an approximation.
- pfisherman 5y agoPeople were worried about something like a dengue fever effect before we knew much about COVID. But now we have tons of data on breakthrough infections and and reinfections and it all says that immunity acquired via vaccine or prior exposure to the virus drastically reduces the risk of hospitalization or death in the case of a new infection.