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by myko 1753 days ago
If I'm understanding correctly, no. These things can both be true:

- Being previously infected with COVID-19 confers greater immunity than the COVID-19 vaccines

- Being previously infected with COVID-19 and being vaccinated confers >2x the immunity than being previously infected alone

The posted article seems to agree as well, but it's unfortunate many folks seem to just be taking the headline at face value:

"The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and then received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated."