COVID-19 Natural immunity more effective than vaccine, research suggests
https://saraacarter.com/covid-19-natural-immunity-more-effective-than-vaccine-research-suggests/
According to the research reported reported in the Scientific American Thursday: “the natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a ‘Don’t try this at home’ label.”
“The newly released data show people who once had a SARS-CoV-2 infection were much less likely than vaccinated people to get Delta, develop symptoms from it, or become hospitalized with serious COVID-19,” the research stated.
According to the study “vaccinated individuals were 27 times more likely to get a symptomatic COVID infection than those with natural immunity from CO
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This is old news. I read the actual preprint some time ago and commented on it here. At the time I had not been critical enough of the study, and thought it looked fairly reasonable, After more thought I recognized a key failing in the study. And others have since pointed out other problems. If it ever gets by the reviewers please let me know, and I'll look at it again. Did it ever get by peer review?
Most people, including yourself I am quite sure, do not know that those who test positive by PCR may not be infected!
The only way to confirm infection, short of actual live culture (neither quick nor easy, so it isn't done) is via symptoms. See for example this study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.e... which shows that both natural immunity and that conferred by m-RNA vaccination both give excellent protection against serve disease from subsequent Covid infection.
Regarding the Article, here are my brief comments and those of others:
The Corona Committee in Israel show research on recovered patients vs. vaccinated here:https://www.gov.il/BlobFold...
This shows patients who recovered between Dec 2020-April 2021 had a 0.43% reinfection rate with 9 (0.0049%) sever cases.
The baseline of persons vaccinated in Feb 2021 was 2.12% infection rate and 0.0132% serious cases.
This data is in line with other professionally done and related studies. They are consistent in that they all show the mRNA vaccines to give excellent protection.
Everyone should understand that the PCR test does not distinguish between live and dead virus nor does it detect an active infection. That can only be done by viral culture. There is no test for live virus currently available for routine use. Those who test positive by PCR may not be infected!
The bottom line here is simple to absorb. You do not want to wait round to get infected so you can acquire natural immunity. Everyone get vaccinated NOW with one of the mRNA vaccines. The J&J vaccine is better than nothing and is mainly useful primitive remote areas the type of refrigeration currently required for the mRNA vaccines is not available.
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