MedCram. Great discussion here on COVID natural immunity versus vaccine immunity.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Listening to trained medical professionals and immunology researchers like this, who have dedicated their lives to studying this stuff, just makes me want to punch the next anti mask covidiot I see.

[justhanginon]

1. Makes you realize just how damn stupid Rand Paul is

if you had any doubt. Stupid and dangerous!

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

[W_HAMILTON]

3. Here is a summary of the main points:

I wasn't going to watch the entire video since it's quite long, but I ended up listening to more than I expected since I had it on in the background while I did something else. The main points, for anyone that just wants those:

- Yes, having once been infected with COVID will give you some sort of immunity going forward; how long that immunity lasts for is still being studied.

- It is possible to get reinfected with COVID even after you have been infected once; however, it is extremely rare for someone that once had COVID to get reinfected and end up in the hospital, meaning that reinfections are usually less severe.

- The reason for all of this is due to the varying immunity that each person has after being infected; it can vary quite a bit from person to person, up to a one hundred-fold difference between people.

- The reason why they recommend that everyone gets the vaccine -- even those that have already been infected -- is because the vaccine produces a similar and (high) baseline of immunity for everyone, whereas immunity through infection alone could result in you potentially being on the low end of that one hundred-fold difference.

[LisaL]

4. It's rare to be re-infected with the original covid.

However, the variants (at least some of them) are a different story. Natural immunity, or vaccine induced immunity, doesn't work well against some of the variants.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Thank you.