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by mthoms 1743 days ago
“Natural” immunity? You’ve been politely asked before to stop using this misleading phrase.

Your insistence on using it is telling.

What you really mean is disease-induced immunity.

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You have some natural immunity to viruses before you get them, that's why you can survive viruses. That's little consolation to anyone in the ER, of course.
Of course, but the context was 100 million people (or however many) are "immune".

He's referring to people who've had the virus.