Not that long ago, even suggesting that natural immunity from previous COVID-19 infection would label someone as anti-vax, uninformed, selfish, a conspiracy theorist and many other derogatory terms. Now, just recently as of February 16, 2023 a medical review published in The Lancet, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, J Stanton, T Gillespie, and J and E Nordstrom, suggests that the data and the “science” support that natural immunity to COVID ‘at least as high, if not higher’ than that from mRNA vaccine. Most recently, mainstream media news sources such as MSN, CBS, WebMD and Newsweek have finally found this idea to be somewhat newsworthy and reported their own perspective on this highly controversial subject.
The natural immunity provided by a COVID infection protects a person against severe illness on a par with two doses of mRNA vaccine, a new study says. People who’ve been infected with COVID reduced their chances of hospitalization and death by 88% over 10 months compared to somebody who hasn’t been infected, says the study, published in The Lancet (Ellis, 2023).
“Our findings show that immunity from COVID-19 infection confers substantial protection against infection from pre-omicron variants. By comparison, protection against re-infection from the omicron BA.1 variant was substantially reduced and wanes rapidly over time. Protection against severe disease, although based on scarce data, was maintained at a relatively high level up to 1 year after the initial infection for all variants. Our analysis suggests that the level of protection from past infection by variant and over time is at least equivalent if not greater than that provided by two-dose mRNA vaccines.” (Stein et al., 2023)
References:
Stein, C., Nassereldine, H., Sorensen, R. J. D., Amlag, J. O., Bisignano, C., Byrne, S., Castro, E., Coberly, K., Collins, J. K., Dalos, J., Daoud, F., Deen, A., Gakidou, E., Giles, J. R., Hulland, E. N., Huntley, B. M., Kinzel, K. E., Lozano, R., Mokdad, A. H., . . . Lim, S. S. (2023, February 1). Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet; Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(22)02465-5
Norton, T. (2023, February 17). Fact Check: Did Study Find COVID Infection Just as Effective as Vaccine? Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-study-find-covid-infection-just-effective-vaccine-1782099
Ellis, R. (2023, February 17). COVID Infection Provides Immunity Equal to Vaccination: Study. WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20230217/covid-infection-provides-immunity-equal-to-vaccination-study
CBS New York. (2023, February 17). COVID-19 infection offers strong protection against reinfection for about 10 months, study finds. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/covid-19-infection-natural-immunity-reinfection/
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