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by ineedasername 1758 days ago
Did you mean to say that previously-infected have much less resistance than the vaccinated? I would very grateful for a source on that. I tried to find out numbers on that but couldn't find apples-to-apples comparison.

I'm saying that the previously infected w/o a vaccination are more likely to get reinfected that those who were infected and then get vaccinates: about 2.34x as likely. Reinfection rates are low [0]

The risk of reinfection if not vaccinates may also be higher than the risk for an initial infection if vaccinated: Reinfection rates are about 0.31% [1] and as high as 0.7% in some populations [2] while infection rates among vaccinated are about 0.18% [3]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

[2] https://medicine.missouri.edu/news/study-finds-covid-19-rein...

[3] https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9392...

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The CDC report that 2.3x number is based off of was bogus science and it's been debunked repeatedly: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/more-voodoo-e...

TLDR: The CDC is dishonest and cherry-picks data to meet their narrative. Multiple peer-reviewed studies have shown natural immunity to work at least as well as vaccine immunity for COVID.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209951/pdf/RMV...

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370(21)0...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2781112