Natural immunity confers stronger protection against Covid than vaccines

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/1/e545/6563799

by throwawayfear • 3 years ago

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ttfkam3• 3 years ago

Not this again. Check the n-values on this study, aka the number of observed subjects. To "throwawayfear", cherry-picking studies doesn't make it so.

dent98765432• 3 years ago

Don’t get the throwawayfear reference.

But the number of participants in the study is relatively high, and the multiples involved are also high.

This should give pause for serious thought even if it is not the final word on the matter for everyone.

ttfkam3• 3 years ago

throwawayfear was the name of the submitter. And you don't need studies like this. We have vaccinated literally billions of people across the planet.

We have aggregate medical data on folks who have been vaccinated and not vaccinated en masse on national levels. We're not in the "controlled study" phase anymore where we need samples to extrapolate onto larger populations. We already have the larger populations.

If there were a recent analysis that looked at all of the population of France for example and showed that vaccinated individuals were more likely to contract Covid again than folks who had contracted Covid before but without vaccination, that would be noteworthy. (And it would have to be relative infection rates, not absolute numbers since the vaccinated far outnumber the unvaccinated at this point in any country would could get reliable data from.)

I'm sorry, but this study doesn't register for me. It strikes me as one of the one-off studies that antivaxxers latch onto to promote and agenda rather than find insight. I feel the same about studies that trickle in linking vaccination to autism. It simply doesn't comport with what the majority of medical analysis indicates. And that's normal. There are always one-offs. But those one-offs get a lot of publicity from folks with an axe to grind rather than those who honestly want to improve public health.

Natural immunity confers stronger protection against Covid than vaccines

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