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Past Covid Infection “as Good as Vaccines” Says Bill Gates-Funded Study

by Toby Young
17 February 2023 3:08 PM

New research part-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation suggests that natural immunity could be just as good as vaccines at preventing serious illness from COVID-19, although, not surprisingly, the study’s authors encourage people to still get vaccinated to avoid complications from any initial infections. Sky News has more:

Previous Covid infection boosts long-term immunity and lowers the risk of hospitalisation and death at the same level as vaccination, new peer-reviewed research shows.

The study, led by the University of Washington and published by the Lancet medical journal, is said to be the “most comprehensive study to date” on the impact of natural immunity for the disease.

“For people who have been infected with COVID-19 at least once before, natural immunity against severe disease (hospitalisation and death) was strong and long-lasting for all variants (88% or greater at ten months post-infection),” researchers said.

However, catching earlier variants was found to offer reduced immunity protection against re-infection with the more transmissible Omicron, which stands at 36% after ten months.

The research, partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, included 65 other studies from 19 countries, looking specifically at those who have not been vaccinated.

It suggests the level and length of protection against reinfection, symptoms and severe illness is at least on a par with that provided by two doses of mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna.

Researchers also discovered protection from reinfection from a pre-Omicron strain was around 85% at month one, dropping to 79% at ten months, after analysis of 21 other studies that looked at timescales.

They did find overall, based on five studies reporting on severe disease (hospitalisation and death), that overall protection remains high for 10 months – 90% for the original, Alpha and Delta strains, and 88% for Omicron.

Worth reading in full.

Herd immunity strategy not so reckless after all.

Tags: Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationHerd immunitymRNA vaccinesThe Lancet

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