Doctors Caucus Letter Urging CDC to Acknowledge Covid-19 Natural Immunity
marshall.senate.gov
marshall.senate.gov
Natural immunity does occur but it is extremely variable. Some get an very good response others get almost no immunity. Since testing immunity can only be performed in a research lab, determination of degree on immunity obtained can not easily be measured by a physician in a clinic. Also the Brazil data shows that good portion of people infected by the original variant are re-infected by the gamma variety a few months later.
Vaccines on the other hand provide consistent immunity across the board. They also appear to provide a broad degree of immunity against variants.
Natural infection followed by two doses of the mRNA vaccine appears to provide the ultimate in immunity. They state it provide a consistent degree of antibody titers up to 8 months post vaccination. It also provides extremely broad immunity even neutralizing the first sars-cov virus from 2000s.
It worth remembering that these vaccines are designed to stop severe illness and that they do well. We now are asking them to prevent all illness...something they were never designed for.
The following podcast summarizes the data well. Start at about 4:30 and listen to about 10 minutes.
The remainder of the podcast is well worth it also but very dense.
Finally it is worth remembering, that Rand Paul started his own board certification association so he could avoid regulations that require continued upkeep of knowledge. Since we just want medical professionals to practice like they were trained up to 30 or 40 years ago. I guess that is why he is now in the Senate.
Btw. infection after vaccination gives also about the same level antibodies as vaccination after infection.
Natural immunity (when confirmed by previous PCR test only unfortunately) is recognized in European Union but at the moment only up to 6 months.
What is missing here? EPIDEMIOLOGY, VIROLOGY
Spare me the dentists chiming in on this