Study: Natural Immunity Is 97 Percent Effective Against Severe COVID After 14 Months
by You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. | Jul 15, 2022A study has found that natural immunity following COVID infection provides protection against severe illness that is superior to that imparted by the COVID vaccines.
In a preprint article published at MedRxiv, Qatar researchers revealed they You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. people who survived COVID-19 infection, and were not vaccinated, had outstanding protection against severe COVID disease or death from COVID.
“Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3% … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning,” the researchers noted. “Similar results were found in sub-group analyses for those ≥50 years of age.”
The study, which was conducted on the total population of Qatar, set out to answer three questions:
- 1) When infected with a pre-Omicron variant, how long does protection persist against reinfection with pre-Omicron variants?
- 2) When infected with a pre-Omicron variant, how long does protection persist against reinfection with an Omicron subvariant?
- 3) When infected with any variant, how long does protection persist against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19?
“Despite waning protection against reinfection, strikingly, there was no evidence for waning of protection against severe COVID-19 at reinfection,” the researchers found. “This remained ∼100%, even 14 months after the primary infection, with no appreciable effect for Omicron immune evasion in reducing it.”
Just days after the release of the study, White House COVID-19 Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. it is “clear from the data” the COVID vaccines government health officials have been pushing do not actually work well in preventing the infection.