[koheripbal]

This assumes the audience for this title are people that have not yet been infected.

It could also apply, for example, to the hundreds of millions of people world wide who have already been infected.

I don't think a fact should assume an audience.

[raffraffraff]

Yes, but strategically we should probably write headlines that be can't taken out of context to disingenuously argue that they "prove" that vaccines are worthless.

Anyway, re-reading your point... My headline wasn't intended to be aimed at any person. It's a hypothetical statement about covid immunity level after surviving covid. Glad I didn't go into journalism.

[peteradio]

Agreed, the original paper title is more appropriate: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...