Saying natural immunity is best is really not smart. This means that you must get sick to acquire it and possibly really sick. This is exactly what vaccines are trying to avoid.
In principle it is smart to prime your immune system with a vaccine. Then if you get still sick, you will mostly gain benefits from natural immunity.
There are still risks involved because instead of single protein in fixed configuration you will get 29 of them in bioactive forms but at least you have greatly reduced your risk.
True, but to me it makes no sense to force people who already have built immunity to a recent strain to get vaccinated against an ancient strain.
Why is existing natural immunity treated like an inferior sibling of being vaccinated (or even ignored completely), even when it provides the most up-to-date protection?
Oddly this article does say Natural Immunity is best. But do we really know? I mean, we've had only 2 years of experience with COVID, and there's some evidence that natural immunity isn't all that great: suffering through the Delta variant didn't give immunity to the Omicron variant.
Actually against omicron 3 doses of vaccine is superior but you will still get infected very likely. More likely than with 2 doses and delta because omicron is just so much more prevalent at the moment.
In principle it is smart to prime your immune system with a vaccine. Then if you get still sick, you will mostly gain benefits from natural immunity.
There are still risks involved because instead of single protein in fixed configuration you will get 29 of them in bioactive forms but at least you have greatly reduced your risk.