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Conducted by researchers at Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University, the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study found that when comparing individuals previously infected with the virus and those that received two jabs of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, those with natural infection saw greater protection against the delta variant and breakthrough infection.
"SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021," the study read. "The increased risk was significant for symptomatic disease as well. When allowing the infection to occur at any time before vaccination (from March 2020 to February 2021), evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated, though SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold increased risk for symptomatic disease."
The analysis also found that solely vaccinated individuals "were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected."
The study ultimately concluded that "natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity" and that "individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant."
While the Israeli Health Ministry has indicated that the delta variant may be more likely to cause reinfection among recovered COVID-19 patients than previous variants, the data shows that natural immunity remains effective at offering robust protection against the virus. According to the Health Ministry, 4,811 Israelis have been reinfected with coronavirus, which accounts for only 0.47 percent of the nation's total recoveries.
Israel remains one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, ranking third in doses administered per 100 people.
Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
Reader Comments
So yeah, ya think natural immunity might be better? Love of Christ.
What will happen?
Do those particles break down like breadcrumbs on a sidewalk? Or do they persist like those Creutzfeldt-Jakob bovine prions which even fire can't destroy? (Or somewhere in between?)
Who knows?!
The amount of white noise out there in the info sphere is astounding.
Imagine; somebody up top has the job of ensuring that random conflicting bullshit is being spewed across all channels just to make sure nobody knows anything, (and must give up in exhaustion to rely on the government).
It's that person's job to shout over the speaker and pull fire alarms and perform other obstructive moves.
"Knowledge Protects"
Better make sure nobody can get any!
Comment: While the study still needs to be peer reviewed, the findings are consistent with what many scientists have been saying since the beginning: natural immunity trumps vaccination.
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