- If university hospitals cannot get the medical evidence right on the basic science of immunity, how can we trust them with any other aspects of our health?
- natural immunity is at least as effective as two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer shots in preventing both reinfection and serious illness from COVID-19 (lancet study feb 2023)
- the vaccinated are 27x more likely to have symptomatic covid than those with natural immunity. (oct 2021)
- the risk of developing symptomatic C-19 is 27x higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization 8x higher (oct 2021)
- natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant (aug 2021)
- hospitals are firing staff with superior stronger and longer-lasting natural immunity, retaining those with weaker vax-induced immunity. (oct 2021)
- Dr. Anthony Fauci and Rochelle Walensky both questioned Covid natural immunity in 2020.
We have understood natural immunity since at least the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Here is Thucydides:
'Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and the dying found most compassion. These knew what it was from experience and had no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice—never at least fatally.' – Thucydides
We have lived with endemic coronaviruses for at least a hundred years, for which we have long-lasting natural immunity. As expected, we also have natural immunity after Covid-19 disease, as there have been exceedingly few reinfections with serious illness or death, despite a widely circulating virus. ...
For most viruses, natural immunity is better than vaccine-induced immunity, and that is also true for Covid. In the best study to date, the vaccinated were around 27 times more likely to have symptomatic disease (Delta) than those with natural immunity, with an estimated range between 13 and 57. With no Covid deaths in either group, both natural and vaccine immunity protect well against death. ...
... We are now seeing a fierce competition where hospitals and nursing homes are desperately trying to hire people with natural immunity. Well, actually, not.
Instead, hospitals are firing nurses and other staff with superior natural immunity while retaining those with weaker vaccine-induced immunity. By doing so, they are betraying their patients, increasing their risk for hospital-acquired infections.
By pushing vaccine mandates, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci is questioning the existence of natural immunity after Covid disease. In doing so, he is following the lead of CDC director Rochelle Walensky, who questioned natural immunity in a 2020 Memorandum published by The Lancet. By instituting vaccine mandates, university hospitals are now also questioning the existence of natural immunity after Covid disease.
This is astonishing.
I work at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, which has announced that all nurses, doctors and other health care providers will be fired if they do not get a Covid vaccine. Last week I spoke with one of our nurses. She worked hard caring for Covid patients, even as some of her colleagues left in fear at the beginning of the pandemic.
Unsurprisingly, she got infected, but then recovered. Now she has stronger and longer-lasting immunity than the vaccinated work-from-home hospital administrators who are firing her for not being vaccinated.
If university hospitals cannot get the medical evidence right on the basic science of immunity, how can we trust them with any other aspects of our health?
What's next? Universities questioning whether the earth is round or flat? That, at least, would do less harm.
Author
Martin Kulldorff is an epidemiologist and biostatistician. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard University (on leave) and a Fellow at the Academy of Science and Freedom. His research focuses on infectious disease outbreaks and the monitoring of vaccine and drug safety, for which he has developed the free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Co-Author of the Great Barrington Declaration.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/natural-immunity-as-effective-as-covid-vaccine-years-after-mandates/
Natural immunity found to be as effective as COVID vaccine — 3 years after mandates: Lancet study
February 27, 2023
Years after the rollout of vaccine mandates that led to the firing of thousands of workers, the Lancet has reported that natural immunity is just as effective as two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer shots in preventing both reinfection and serious illness from COVID-19.
The findings, which were published in the February edition of the prestigious medical journal, were based on a review of 65 separate studies from 19 different countries.
"Although protection from reinfection from all variants wanes over time, our analysis of the available data suggests that the level of protection afforded by previous infection is at least as high, if not higher than that provided by two-dose vaccination using high-quality mRNA vaccines," the report declared. ...
Caroline Stein, one of the study authors, stated that "decision-makers should take both natural immunity and vaccination status into consideration to obtain a full picture of an individual's immunity profile."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxhQ9_i3yo&ab_channel=TheHill
Natural Immunity From Prior Covid Infection CONFIRMED By New Study: As Good as 2 MRNA Shots
COMMENTS
-- I was a nurse for over 30 years. The whole idea that vaccine immunity, which only contained the spike protein, would be better than natural immunity was ridiculous. The fact that nurses and MDs bought this, made me realize that medicine is no longer about critical thinking.
-- Those involved in setting Covid policy either knew better and didn't care, or should have known better (about the strength of natural immunity, the ghoulish pharma business model). This is not an example of "the science changed," it is an example of government and corporate gaslighting being exposed. This is not a scenario where we need to forgive and forget; people need to be held accountable.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections
August 25, 2021
Abstract
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/health/if-youve-had-covid-do-you-need-the-vaccine.html
If You've Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?
Oct 18, 2021
Breakthrough infections after vaccination were 13-fold more likely than reinfections in unvaccinated people, and symptomatic breakthrough infections 27-fold more likely than symptomatic
https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but...
26 AUG 2021
The new analysis relies on the database of Maccabi Healthcare Services, which enrolls about 2.5 million Israelis. The study, led by Tal Patalon and Sivan Gazit at KSM, the system's research and innovation arm, found in two analyses that never-infected people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July, and the first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher. "The differences are huge," says Thålin ...
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