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You must think in terms of risk of hospitalization and/or long covid with or without vaccination over the course of the whole path you choose.
ps. Moderna seems to be much more effective against Delta than Pfizer-BioNTech.
Why is "natural infections and recovery produce a better immune response than a vaccine" so controversial? Has it been this controversial for any other disease?
Confirmation bias
I can only consider this a positive for those who are vaccine hesitant, as they will probably be getting it, but I can't see how, considering the realistic dangers of a vaccine, a rational individual wouldn't want both forms of protection even if they were previously infected.
Consider the realistic uncertainty and probability from previous study of antibody dependent enhancement. It’s not proven that the mRNA therapy won’t worsen covid reaction in the long run.
What are you defining by "long run"? We're quickly moving into a year with mRNA therapies. I'm not aware of any instance of this occurring with previous vaccines, and we can't just say "well mRNA could be different" because if we do that all the possible "what-ifs" we quickly swing into the absurd.
I'm so disqusted with the media right now.
The Lancet just published a study yesterday on natural infection still causing symptoms one year later (“long Covid”) for 49% of unvaccinated people. I’ll stick to the vaccine.
>the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher This sounds convincing, but then in the next graf: >For instance, the higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the…
To develop natural immunity, you would need to get infected with the virus, no? That's considerably more risky than getting the vaccine. If you do get infected with the virus after vaccination, wouldn't you also develop natural immunity?
If you get COVID after vaccination, your immune system may not learn how to fight COVID-19 as well, because the vaccine is present and doing something.
The term ”survivor bias” is usually used metaphorically, but in this case it applies literally. Putting in some caveats about the risks associated with infection is not enough. This is a garbage analysis that should never have been accepted for publication.
What this study has done is identified a sub population who stand to gain such minuscule benefit from vaccination that it would be unethical to include them in a study (most studies DO exclude previously infected individuals, huh wonder why?) Furthermore it is unscientific discrimination to penalize people when they could prove prior infection and/or immunity.