saxitoxin wrote:Doc_Brown wrote:Interesting paper published by researchers in Israel comparing natural immunity to the vaccines. Vaccinated individuals had a 13x higher risk of breakthrough infections from the delta variant than those previously infected by Covid (and similar for symptomatic infections).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... .full-textThis study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the [Pfizer] two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.
Yup. This is where the wheels start coming off the bus.
Wrong again, saxi. (I know THIS sounds like a broken record, BUT I need to again call saxi on his LIES.) Here are quotes from the study mentioned above by Doc Brown.
Background Reports of waning vaccine-induced immunity against COVID-19 have begun to surface. With that, the comparable long-term protection conferred by previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 remains unclear.
Conclusions This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.
So saxi wants you to believe that it is better to WAIT TO GET COVID and skip the vaccine. RIGHT...!!..when many of those unvaccinated get hospitalized and some even DIE. Further, if the protection from the vaccine is waning, then PERHAPS that is why a 3rd shot BOOSTER is now being RECOMMENDED. What saxi FAILS TO REALIZE and/or fails to publicize is that the Science GUIDES policy; also, our public health policy is dynamic enough to "Follow the Science" and adapt to the virus mutations and to the changing situations. The COVID disease changes as the virus mutates; and so do the responses RECOMMENDED by those leading the effort to fight the disease. Follow the Science and realize that this situation is NOVEL, is FLUID, and our medical system is monitoring and adjusting to the demands of this fight.
Thank Goodness and Thank God that we have many dedicated and hard-working medical people researching this disease and the responses to it. AND Thank God for all the WONDERFUL health field workers who CARE for the sick, whether the patients are VACCINATED or NOT. Those who are foolish enough NOT to get vaccinated are not doing their part to "Flatten the Curve." They ARE THE CURVE and the CURVE is getting more curved; i.e., the number of cases is growing, AGAIN, and around 90% of the news COVID cases are among the UNVACCINATED.
And the WHEELS are solidly and clearly on this vehicle DRIVEN by Science. Again, from the same source ABOVE:
The short-term effectiveness of a two-dose regimen of the BioNTech/Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was demonstrated in clinical trials2 and in observational settings3,4.
Be sure to READ THE ENTIRE article saxi, so that you can AVOID having your argument turned on its small pinhead because you take things OUT OF CONTEXT and are AGAIN PROVEN to peddle false narratives and LIES. THAT, saxi, is obfuscation by you, plain and simple.