[alexpw]

You should still get vaccinated. Post-infection immunity is very heterogeneous, with respect to what level of protection you'll have, and how long it will last. You might have great protection for a bit, or you might get reinfected just like the first time, like many have.

The combined protection of natural with vaccination will be better than just one or the other. I hope you stay safe.

[dude4you]

an israli paper claimed my immunity is 13 times better now compared to vaccinated people.

[munk-a]

The CDC says[1]

> Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19 because:

> Research has not yet shown how long you are protected from getting COVID-19 again after you recover from COVID-19.

> Vaccination helps protect you even if you’ve already had COVID-19.

an Israeli paper[2] (probably the one you're thinking of) also mentions that yes - your immunity from having the disease is better than a vaccine but getting both still provides a much better outcome. Please note that this study is very recent and may be overturned in review.

> 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. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.

So maybe you'll end up super-immune! Congratulations! (now go get vaccinated)

1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html

2. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

[monksy]

What's the paper?

[pseudo0]

I'd guess it's this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

[dude4you]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

[monksy]

It's been recently published and the warning on it is:

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

It's not something that can be held up as evidence in any direction at the moment.