3 ms·

For what it's worth, recovering from the disease and getting a "booster" vaccine a few months later yields the best protection. I hope you do this. People who

For what it's worth, recovering from the disease and getting a "booster" vaccine a few months later yields the best protection. I hope you do this. People who are relying solely on disease recovery are far more likely to be reinfected, and face worse outcomes, as compared to people who get their full three-dose vaccine (two primary + booster). Incidentally, your thought process is suffering from the naturalistic fallacy.

mehrdada 5y ago
Where did you get this data? All CDC itself says on the website says “Cases of reinfection with COVID-19 have been reported, but remain rare. [1]” and it seems there is an active effort to suppress the effectiveness of natural immunity effectiveness (at least against the same strain). Intuitively given vaccine’s ineffectiveness at protecting against Omicron spread, I tend to think the push for boosters are quite dubious and natural immunity is at least as good as vax if not better, and sufficiently low risk for Omicron after 2x vax. Besides, anecdotal experience of below 40 adult friends catching Omicron with 2x or 3x vax has been much easier than the two days of bitter experience after their last dose of Moderna. The only acceptable rationale is to flatten the curve so the Omicron surge wouldn’t DoS hospitals in the short term which can happen even if the relative risk of hospitalization is low due to the high transmission rates, but that can be better achieved via more temporary isolation/N95/etc than boosters. [1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/reinfection.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/reinfe...
- MengerSponge 5y ago