| I made no mention of Sweden and have no idea what that has to do with natural immunity given their vaccination rate is 75% and their death rate is comparable to Germany and France. [0] [1] > And note that it's not that good in the first place--plenty of reinfections because the immune system locked onto a part of the virus that changed. You've got it exactly backwards. The vaccine uses only a part of the S-protein, whereas a natural infection exposes the body to the full S-protein and N-protein. In theory and in practice, the immune system can train on more viral features via natural infection than it can via vaccine. > The vaccine has enough problem with immune escape, natural "immunity" fares even worse. It really doesn't. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] > We present a systematic review and pooled analysis of clinical studies to date that (1) specifically compare the protection of natural immunity in the COVID-recovered versus the efficacy of complete vaccination in the COVID-naive ... it supports the pooled findings in finding superiority of natural immunity over-vaccination ... Consequently, no study could conclude the superiority of vaccination protection over natural immunity with statistical confidence, but observational studies endorsed an advantage for protection by natural immunity. [7] [0] https://ycharts.com/indicators/sweden_coronavirus_full_vacci... [1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34089610/ [3] https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/ [4] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-75... [5] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting... [6] https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid... [7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627252/ |