If I'm reading the charts correctly, the incidence of infection after recovering from Covid is around 13-15 per 100k after 6-8 months, and after recovering from Covid + Vaccination is around 10-14 per 100k after 6-8 months.
So it seems like vaccination does not present a clear benefit for someone that recovered from Covid? (The confidence intervals overlap)
I think the main benefit is that taking vaccine re-sets the timer on your dimnishing immunity from prior infection.
So if you had covid 8 months ago, but took the vaccine last month you have significantly better immunity than if you didn't.
While a person that took vaccine 8 months ago and was also sick even further back (for example 12 months ago), has roughly the same immunity as a person who was sick 8 months ago and didn't vaccinate.
It sounds like youre operating from a premise of unnecessary doses being slightly bad, vs slightly good. Is there a clear benefit to not taking pascals wager?
We know how and why aspirin works, and we've had it for decades. I don't want to live through class actions and apologies for long term vaccine effects.
You can post something from last century, it will be as wrong as this link.
Omicron has shown extremely increased reinfection risk compared to all the other variants.
So the correct answer is:
yes, you absolutely do need to get a vaccine after the infection if you want to lower your reinfection chances.
Curious enough, almost everyone I know who had COVID once at least thinks they got it at least one more time. Obviously anecdata etc., I’m not substantiating any argument at all with this, but this fact of my personal experience didn’t occur to me until reading your comment!
It's not. However if somebody claims that something almost never happens and you, being completely average person, know few people that claim it has happned to them then something might be up.
Somebody's might be mistaken. Probably those few people but I'd like to see stronger evidence for the general claim as well.
Especially if claim is extraordinary. We know very few illnesses where being sick once gives you immunity for life.
No, do not do it. Not worth the risk, while your natural immunity is way more effective than even 3 shots of vaccine. If you are above 60 years old, get the vaccine.
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