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think carefully. Why is this surprising again? Two exposure events should elicit a stronger reaction than one, three stronger than two, etc. Hell, it's even
by dnautics 5y ago
think carefully.
Why is this surprising again? Two exposure events should elicit a stronger reaction than one, three stronger than two, etc.
Hell, it's even in the article:
"It’s not surprising that people infected and vaccinated are getting a nice response" -some doctor.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoPeople seem to think that there's just one antibody that everybody shares when they are vaccinated or develop natural immunity. You can readily develop different sets of antibodies from separate exposure events.
- dnautics 5y agoThe better diversity of antibodies you have against a target, you get compounding synergistic protection and protection against mutational escape on the part of the virus. And a natural virus with all it's parts is going to elicit a more diverse collection of antibodies than a spike-protein targeted vaccine. This should be absolutely unsurprising.
- esyir 5y agoI'd blame that on the popular media, which portrays antibodies as carefully tuned single agents rather than the randomly generated pile that they are.