A new Israeli study (preprint) suggests 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. 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."
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf
A comment about it said "I think it was a mistake to rely on mRNA vaccines, which target only the spike protein. Traditional vaccines, which use deactivated virus, induce antibodies that target the entire virus. The spike protein is what has been mutating. Sinovac may have had a better strategy."
Herd immunity anyone?
Last edited by: smokie on Wed 25 Aug 21 at 23:37
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