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Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

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Re: Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots

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Post by _Microft »

That's good news for people who have already recovered from Covid. We should definitely take that into account for policies around opening up again, i.e. by treating recovered people like vaccinated people. Beside that it is of little use, is it? "Get Covid to be better protected from Covid" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, at least.

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Post by nostromo »

_Microft wrote: post #2

That's good news for people who have already recovered from Covid. We should definitely take that into account for policies around opening up again, i.e. by treating recovered people like vaccinated people. Beside that it is of little use, is it? "Get Covid to be better protected from Covid" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, at least.

People should obviously get vaccinated, yes.

It does suggest that the vaccines could be improved to be even more effective.

It’s also interesting that the people most resistant to delta are people that were both infected and vaccinated.

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Post by lottin »

nostromo wrote: post #3
_Microft wrote: post #2

That's good news for people who have already recovered from Covid. We should definitely take that into account for policies around opening up again, i.e. by treating recovered people like vaccinated people. Beside that it is of little use, is it? "Get Covid to be better protected from Covid" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, at least.

People should obviously get vaccinated, yes. It does suggest that the vaccines could be improved to be even more effective. It’s also interesting that the people most resistant to delta are people that were both infected and vaccinated.

I seem to recall someone suggested that since a large percentage of the population is vaccinated and are therefore protected against severe covid, we should now actually try to catch it to develop a natural immunity to the virus.

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Post by tomesch1982 »

Sounds a bit like survivor bias. People who have already recovered once (and not died) are more likely to recover a second time (and not die). In the control group, people who have never had the virus, some have a harder time with it.

I hope this gets taken into account.

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