New Study Finds That COVID Infection Provides As Much Protection As Vaccine

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A new study found that a previous #COVID19 infection offers at least the same level of protection as two doses of high-quality mRNA vaccines, such as Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.

Additionally, people who are infected with #COVID may be protected from reinfection for 40 weeks or longer, the study found — It was published in The Lancet on Feb. 16th.

Protection from reinfection was highest for the ancestral (original) strain of COVID-19 and the alpha, beta and delta variants, remaining at more than 78% after 40 weeks.

Protection was lower for the omicron BA.1 variant, which dropped to 36.1% in that same time frame.

When it comes to severe disease (hospitalization or death), protection was high across all variants, averaging 78% or higher for ancestral, alpha, beta, delta and omicron BA.1 at 40 weeks after infection.

The level of protection declined over time for all variants, but it dipped fastest for the omicron BA.1 variant.

The study, titled “Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” was led by a group of researchers that make up the COVID-19 Forecasting Team.

Dr. Marc Siegel, professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City and a Fox News medical contributor, told Fox News Digital that immunity from prior infection (known as natural immunity) and immunity from vaccines both provide significant protection against severe illness and some protection (for at least a few months) against getting the virus again…. Thoughts on this??? 

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