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A preprint study out of Israel shows that vaccinated people were 13x more likely to be infected and 27x more likely to have a symptomatic infection compared to a matched cohort with natural immunity...
posted ago by purkiss80 ago by purkiss80 +56 / -0

In other words, natural infection offers a much better shield against the delta variant than vaccines.

The study was described by Bloomberg as "the largest real-world analysis comparing natural immunity - gained from an earlier infection - to the protection provided by one of the most potent vaccines currently in use."

“It’s a textbook example of how natural immunity is really better than vaccination,” says Charlotte Thålin, a physician and immunology researcher at Danderyd Hospital and the Karolinska Institute who studies the immune responses to SARS-CoV-2. “To my knowledge, it’s the first time [this] has really been shown in the context of COVID-19.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties

Study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1

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