By DR. MARY GILLIS, D.Ed.
WISH-TV | wishtv.com
It’s a topic dividing the nation: What’s better, vaccination or natural immunity?
“Natural immunity works when the virus doesn’t evolve … when you don’t have a new variant that can evade natural immunity that you may have developed the first time around,” Dr. Graham Carlos, chief of internal medicine at Eskenazi Health, told WISH-TV News 8. “One of the reasons why vaccines have been so important is because they have been shown to be protective against these new variants such as the delta variant, which is by far the most prevalent variant now.”
However, a recent study by scientists in Israel suggests it’s the opposite. Researchers assessed tens of thousands of people. Results showed people who were previously infected with COVID-19 showed longer and stronger protection against the virus compared to those who received the two-dose Pfizer vaccine regimen.
The researchers found that during the study period from May 2020 to August 2021, vaccinated people were at six times the risk for a breakthrough infection and at seven times the risk of infection compared to those previously infected. This data held up even when the delta variant entered the country.
To date, there have been no studies conducted in the United States comparing the effectiveness of natural immunity to the vaccines.
Also being reported out of Israel is that the 17% of those unvaccinated are accounting for 65% of serious covid infections.
Not sure how that jives with your implied premise that it’s preferable to get sick as opposed to vaccinated.
So yeah ; longer & stronger protection .. if one survives the experience > You left that part out.
That premise is never implied. Re-read the article. There are millions who had natural immunity before the vaccines were even available. Use your brain.
Here’s some real journalism about the same topic:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/17/does-natural-immunity-covid-provide-best-protection/8363588002/
Yeah but 99.7% survive.
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