https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...
Edit: If you did have chickenpox, CDC says you don't need the vaccine.
> CDC recommends two doses of chickenpox vaccine for children, adolescents, and adults who have never had chickenpox and were never vaccinated.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/varicella/public/index.html
Chicken pox is a different disease. It's not the same as COVID-19.
There are a lot of questions around natural COVID-19 immunity that people who want to rely on it need to answer if they don't want to get vaccinated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27987103). Then there's the question of why go through so much trouble to avoid something that's easy, cheap, and far more certain.
It's entirely on people who want to mandate a medical procedure.
> It's entirely on people who want to mandate a medical procedure.
Nope, not really. While there is quite a high burden of proof on the people who want to mandate a medical procedure, the people who make their own medical claims (such as natural immunity provides equivalent or adequate protection) bear a significant burden of proof as well. Relieving them of that burden is completely impractical, since it would privilege all kinds of spurious claims.
The vaccines have proven to be safe and effective. If you want another preventative treatment to be considered equivalent, prove it.
Huh? There are centuries of experience that natural COVID-19 immunity is as consistently effective as one of the current crop of US-approved vaccines?
[1] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
[2] "The people who are not testing positive in the current outbreak are those who have had COVID-19 previously and recovered. These people account for 9% of Israel’s population but less than 1% of recent infections, according to Kovler’s analysis." source: https://www.deseret.com/platform/amp/coronavirus/2021/7/20/2...
[3] https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/06/09/cleveland-cl...