Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19
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#2> The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.
> The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
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#3Man that would be really nice.
Just getting out of it now I realize how much I missed 'normal' life.
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#4_If_ natural immunity lasts longer than vaccine immunity, does that mean those that have been infected would not need the regular booster shots?
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#5> The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection. > The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
The consensus I’m hearing from epidemiologists is the mRNA vaccines should offer better immunity than infection. So it would seem the 8 month for immunity after infection should be a lower bound for the vaccine effectiveness.
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#6_If_ natural immunity lasts longer than vaccine immunity, does that mean those that have been infected would not need the regular booster shots?
Natural immunity and vaccine immunity are expected to last around the same amount time. This is for the simple reason that the mechanism that generates the immunity is similar. (Natural immunity being a bit more diverse, while vaccine focuses on a single protein.)
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#7> The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection. > The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
The consensus I’m hearing from epidemiologists is the mRNA vaccines should offer better immunity than infection. So it would seem the 8 month for immunity after infection should be a lower bound for the vaccine effectiveness.
As much as I'd like that to be true, I think it's impossible to separate that statement from the political pressure to motivate vaccination.
ie, if the opposite was true — vaccination did not provide the same strength of immunity as infection — no epidemiologist would ever state this publicly.
So I'll be happy if it's true, but this statement doesn't move my belief-meter one way or another.
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#8_If_ natural immunity lasts longer than vaccine immunity, does that mean those that have been infected would not need the regular booster shots?
Maybe they add up like bonuses in a video game...
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#10> The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection. > The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
The consensus I’m hearing from epidemiologists is the mRNA vaccines should offer better immunity than infection. So it would seem the 8 month for immunity after infection should be a lower bound for the vaccine effectiveness.
> The consensus I’m hearing from epidemiologists is the mRNA vaccines should offer better immunity than infection
Serious question: How can we possibly know this? I'm all for vaccinations (I'm going in for my second shot this weekend), but I just worry about commentary backed by intuition that doesn't carry sufficient disclaiming.