Tag: Natural immunity

A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?

Britain didn't need Covid booster jabs as they only last 70 days, top virus expert Sir John Bell has said, as he backed natural immunity and said letting the virus circulate is "the best way to protect the population".

Children with antibodies had increased infection risk against Omicron, a study in JAMA has found. Protection came instead from T cells, which cut infection risk dramatically.

The latest Covid infection data from ZOE show a September rise in England, but the new-term ripple in Scotland is already falling. Could it be the end of Covid?

A new study in NEJM shows not only that Pfizer vaccine effectiveness becomes negative within five months but that the vaccines destroy any protection a person would have had from natural immunity.

A new study from Qatar shows that Omicron infection provides strong protection against reinfection (80%). Those like Imperial's Prof Danny Altmann who have been scaring people by telling them otherwise are wrong.

An Imperial study appeared this week that was reported in the press as showing that Omicron infection does "virtually nothing" to protect against re-infection. But the study actually shows the opposite.

A video has resurfaced in which Anthony Fauci is asked whether a woman with the flu needs to get a flu shot. He says, "She’s as protected as anybody can be because the best vaccination is to get infected yourself."

A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine policies, arguing that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.

A reader sent us the letter he received recently from the ONS, in which it states that "having had a COVID-19 infection before usually gives a stronger immune response than vaccination".