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Immunity acquired from a Covid infection as protective as vaccination

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21 pointsifyoubuildit12 comments

Better late than never, I guess.

> Still, experts stress that vaccination is the preferable route to immunity, given the risks of Covid, particularly in unvaccinated people.

They still have to include this though, in case someone that's been stranded on a desert isle for the last 3 years happens to read this.

Brought to you by Pfizer.

If they don't include it they get fact checked, labelled an antivaxxer and lose their credentials.

This has been very likely for over a year now if one has payed attention to even half the major covid related research papers that have come across HN. There are still schools and employers mandating vaccination for people that have better immunities than themselves.

Oh, we know. This seems to be the first time a major news organization quietly reported this.

Even to volunteer at the local cat shelter, they ask me to get vaccinated AND boosted. I'd sooner photoshop a doc for them than take the risk.

It's not even quiet, it's on the front page of the website, slightly below the fold. I almost wonder if I'm hallucinating, or if the censors were asleep at the wheel.

I wonder how many people were fired because someone was too stupid or inflexible to consider this, and rather than relying on evidence they relied on what some idiot in charge told them must be true.

Millions in the US alone. The EEOC is still processing claims from that period and don't appear to be close to being caught up. And that's the ones who bothered to let themselves be fired rather than getting the shot.

Funny, I remember when we were called crazy conspiracy theorists for saying this not too long ago. Something tells me there will be no apologies.

And that's on HN. On the less enlightened boards, you'd have your message flagged, and your account deleted. For selfishly spreading dangerous misinformation. :-) And that's where discussion was even permitted...

I don't think the idea that natural immunity was effective was ever seriously put into question, there were, and still are questions about relative effectiveness compared to vaccines, going one way or another depending on the study.

But all that is missing the point. The entire point of vaccines is to get immunity without getting the disease.

Then there are politics. Some countries have vaccine mandates, others don't, some countries recognize natural immunity, others don't, and the reasons are not just scientific. This is a scientific article, not an article about politics, and it is about the best way to protect yourself assuming you had the disease.

Well, that's one shoe. How long before the get the other one?

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