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This study is based on 2020 data, pre Delta.

Here is the latest data. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-on...

  Vaccinated person 13x more likely than the naturally immune to catch delta

  7x more likely to be symptomatic

  More likely to be hospitalized

Take back you downvote and educate yourself.

The commenter stated that the vaccine had no benefit to previously infected. That is not true. From the article you reference:

"The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated."

At what cost? What is the risk vs benefit for this particular scenario?

Yes agreed, but the benefits appear to be insignificant relative to the benefits of giving that vaccine dose to an immunologically naive or otherwise vulnerable individual.

Perhaps, as is a common argument from the vaccine-hesitant, we should wait for more scientific data before concluding that previous infection provides more protection than the vaccine? :)

After all, this whole thing has happened quite quickly.

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