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> Why are people with COVID antibodies from successful recovery forced to get vaccines? "Successful recoveries" alone is not an indication that you are now imm

by nuerow 5y ago

> Why are people with COVID antibodies from successful recovery forced to get vaccines? "Successful recoveries" alone is not an indication that you are now immune to COVID-19 or able to handle a reinfection well. There are reported cases of reinfections, with the second COVID-19 infection being far more serious and even deadly. Also, it has been observed that vaccination ensures a better antibody response to some variants than a prior infection. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm Even though none of the current batch of vaccines ensure perfect immunity, they all do ensure that the immune response to subsequent infections is good enough to not even warrant any additional care beyond quarantine to avoid transmitting to anyone else. Anyone can find answers to those questions with a quick Google search. What happened to "I do my own research"?

peteradio 5y ago
When you get to "reported cases of" anecdotes that the researchers were specifically targeting to find you might want to consider the reduction factors involved. Or even the potential for selecting a biased dataset based on false positives. Correct interpretation of research is more important than finding this or that paper. Kentucky study was not about antibody response so I'm not sure how you are using that to back up your assertion. Instead it was a theoretically more direct look in to patient outcomes, however follow own studies over larger populations seem to be in tension with the Kentucky result.
HelixEndeavor 5y ago
"reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show." As someone who was diagnosed with COVID in August, was out of commission for a week and a half, and recovered fully, I'll need more convincing than "this happened once, maybe even twice" to believe it's worth it to get the shot.
- nuerow 5y ago
  > "reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show." Do you understand that statistics are calculated from reported cases? I mean, statistics is literally the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

by nuerow 5y ago

peteradio 5y ago

When you get to "reported cases of" anecdotes that the researchers were specifically targeting to find you might want to consider the reduction factors involved. Or even the potential for selecting a biased dataset based on false positives. Correct interpretation of research is more important than finding this or that paper. Kentucky study was not about antibody response so I'm not sure how you are using that to back up your assertion. Instead it was a theoretically more direct look in to patient outcomes, however follow own studies over larger populations seem to be in tension with the Kentucky result.

HelixEndeavor 5y ago

"reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show." As someone who was diagnosed with COVID in August, was out of commission for a week and a half, and recovered fully, I'll need more convincing than "this happened once, maybe even twice" to believe it's worth it to get the shot.

nuerow 5y ago
> "reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show." Do you understand that statistics are calculated from reported cases? I mean, statistics is literally the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.