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by ppod 1631 days ago
>Natural immunity doesn't seem to be very useful against covid. Or, at least, not more useful than the vaccines we already have

Do you have any evidence for that? The question has obviously become politicised. Experts figure out what information they think might make people more relaxed or careless about covid, and heavily push the reverse line. It's no wonder people's trust in experts is failing.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/which-...

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

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The recent flurry of papers on omicron trying to decouple the effect of its intrinsic virulence from prior immunity have been finding that prior infection (with delta) and unboosted vaccination have comparable risk reduction file hospitalization from Covid

It’s been a couple weeks so maybe there is better, less preliminary analysis available now

On hospitalization risk in the UK: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

On reinfection/breakthrough risk: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...