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>Natural immunity doesn't seem to be very useful against covid. Or, at least, not more useful than the vaccines we already have Do you have any evidence for th
by ppod 5y ago
>Natural immunity doesn't seem to be very useful against covid. Or, at least, not more useful than the vaccines we already have
Do you have any evidence for that? The question has obviously become politicised. Experts figure out what information they think might make people more relaxed or careless about covid, and heavily push the reverse line. It's no wonder people's trust in experts is failing.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/which-protects-you-more-vaccination-or-prior-infection https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/which-...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
- rsfern 5y agoThe recent flurry of papers on omicron trying to decouple the effect of its intrinsic virulence from prior immunity have been finding that prior infection (with delta) and unboosted vaccination have comparable risk reduction file hospitalization from Covid It’s been a couple weeks so maybe there is better, less preliminary analysis available now On hospitalization risk in the UK: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-49-Omicron/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana... On reinfection/breakthrough risk: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...