tmm99
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Would you mind posting a source link. I think it's important to do that instead of saying I read somewhere. Thanks...
Man, people want proof!??
Here you go. I subscribe to Washington Post and this article may be behind the paywall, dunno. Anyway, I think this is where I read about it. The article was published yesterday. They weren't specifically trying to find out if the people who have had COVID were protected from the South African variant, but it was an incidental/accidental finding, is my understanding. I hope it's OK to give small excerpts from the article... If not, let me know and I will delete it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/05/virus-variant-reinfection-south-africa/
"Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that it appears a vaccine is better than natural infection in protecting people, calling it “a big, strong plug to get vaccinated” and a reality check for people who may have assumed that because they have already been infected, they are immune."
"On Tuesday, details of the Novavax trial were presented at the New York Academy of Sciences.
About 30 percent of the people in the South African trial had antibodies in their blood at the start of the trial showing they had recovered from an earlier infection.
But that previous exposure didn’t necessarily appear to afford protection. Among those who got saltwater shots, the people with a prior infection got sick at the same rate as study participants who had not been previously infected — a surprise because they would have been expected to have some immunity. Nearly 4 percent of people who had a previous infection were reinfected, an almost identical rate to those with no history of infection."
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