This is completely incorrect. As the sibling comment notes, antibody titer against a pseudovirus (synthetic virus containing spike protein; what this figure shows) is a proxy for immunity, and nobody has ever shown that it bears any practical significance at all. Antibody levels go down over time. If they didn't, your blood would be peanut butter.
Antibody levels for absolute neutralization of a synthetic virus in a dish? I have no idea what that means. It's something people look at because it's easy to look at in a dish.
In contrast, a recent paper from JHU and the NIH shows that people who were previously infected have T-Cell responses to spike protein that are almost completely unaffected by mutations in Omicron:
Rare things happen, rarely. It's a big world. Also that "may" in the headline is a logical hole that you can drive a truck through -- being PCR positive prior to death is by no means dispositive evidence that the virus is what killed the person. Pretty much everyone setting foot in a hospital today is tested for Covid, whether they went there for cancer, a heart attack, or the infection itself.
WaPo and "if it bleeds, it leads" coverage like this will give you a completely distorted view of reality. Stop feeding the beast.
This is not reddit. I have no doubt that in 2-3 weeks there will be numerous people who have died of Omicron. Given sufficient time, I'm sure there will be examples of people who die from the virus after reinfection.
As I said: it's a big world, and people die of incredibly innocuous things, every day.
I recall hearing that as well but I can't quite remember what the rest of the picture is - something about the other parts of the immune system being able to do the needed work? Or that it was shown that someone with zero antibodies could still be immune?
Other parts of the immune system, specifically T-cell response. The simplified bottom line is that antibodies provide a quick response that also prevents many cases of mild disease. T-cell immunity lasts longer, appears more universal against variants and should still work relatively well against severe cases.
It's more like a retraining program. It's almost like the difference between short and long term memory. One shot will turn on short term memory after a week or two. Repeating shots will turn on long term memory.
But what I personally think is interesting is that a natural infection works longer and broader after just one 'dose'.
It is amazing how complitacted the immuunsysteem is. And I also think this is the reason we should be careful with giving healthy young people the vaccins.
It will likely be too difficult to do a study to answer this precisely. But if you recently got your initial vaccination completed, you shouldn't be in a rush to get a booster. The booster is there to reinforce the immunity after it has had to wear off.