Studies Find Evidence of 'Superhuman' Immunity to Covid-19 in Some Individuals
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> "With every single one of the patients we studied, we saw the same thing." The study reports data on 14 patients.
Only 14 patients, absolutely no divergence from the reported result? I hate to say it but this feels like a propaganda piece to get previously infected individuals to get vaccinated. I'm not against people doing that, but this article smells fishy.
Anyways, my wife told the first nurse that this was my second infection and she was amazed. She also told the nurse that gave us the infusion the same thing, with the same reaction. Apparently this caused quite the hubbub in the hallway and our last nurse of the night came in and told us that I was the first reinfection she’d heard of. This was a COVID ward nurse.
So, I don’t know. On one hand - this is my second time and I had 7 days with a fever of 102f. I’m 33 and healthy. On the other hand, apparently it’s damned rare. I would maybe advise people that had been infected to get the vaccine or not depending on their jobs/other risk factors.
That would indicate that this is very very rare, more rare than hospitalization or death from COVID.
I don't advise people one way or another on getting vaccinated on principle, but particularly I wouldn't base advice on this particular experience. After that experience though I wouldn't be surprised if you decide to get vaccinated.
Serology has not been correlated with patient outcomes. The threshold for "success" may be much lower than what is even measurable by the lab (just as an example). Vaccines tend to produce much higher measurable antibodies than infection but we also know that infection is pretty effective at preventing repeat hospitalization. I believe this study is simply putting a microscope on the effectiveness of infection by magnifying the initial immune response with the vaccine. Put another way, I'm not yet convinced this study should be used to suggest vaccination for those prior infected because we don't yet know the threshold for success.