COVID-19 Vaccines Offer More Protection than Previous Infection: CDC Study

Epoch Times ^ | 08/06/2021 | Zachary Steiber

[SeekAndFind]

People who have received a COVID-19 vaccine have more protection against the SARS-COV-2 virus than people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to a new study.

The odds of getting infected with the virus, which causes COVID-19, were 2.3 times higher among people who had been infected before when compared to those who were fully vaccinated, according to the new report.

Researchers in Kentucky teamed with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials to carry out the case-control evaluation of the link between vaccination and infection.

They used Kentucky’s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System to find COVID-19 cases and checked for people who got infected a second time between May 1 and June 30 of this year.

They also utilized the state’s immunization registry to look for fully vaccinated persons.

Researchers ended up with two groups. The first group of 246 was called case-patients, who experienced a second COVID-19 infection. The second was a control group of 492 who did not.

Some of the case-patients were fully vaccinated but still got a second infection, according to researchers. Still, the percentage of those who went unvaccinated and got infected again was higher, they found.

“These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections,” the CDC said in a statement.

“This study shows you are twice as likely to get infected again if you are unvaccinated. Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and others around you, especially as the more contagious Delta variant spreads around the country,” added Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director.

Some existing research tilts the opposite direction of the study’s conclusions. Multiple studies have indicated that vaccination does not provide more protection than prior infection.

Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, clinical professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, conducted one of those studies.

He and other researchers analyzed records from a California laboratory where workers were routinely tested during the pandemic and found none of the employees contracted COVID-19.

Klausner told The Epoch Times in an email that he reviewed the new CDC study and found it lacking.

“My concern is that in the Kentucky study the people with prior infection who go on to get vaccinated are different than those who do not. People with prior infection who get vaccinated are more likely to take other precautions such as mask wearing, avoiding indoor crowded settings, and get tested more often than those who do not get vaccinated. Those who did not get vaccinated likely engage in higher risk activities, have more exposure, and are less likely to get tested,” he said.

“The very brief report is incomplete without showing that the two groups were equal in terms of risk factors for repeat infection,” he added.

Other studies indicate that even one vaccine dose boosts the immunity in people who got COVID-19 and recovered.

Researchers from Rush University said in a separate study published Friday that people with prior infection may be sufficiently protected from reinfection after a single dose of a messenger RNA-based vaccine.

That “could free up availability of millions of additional doses,” they said.

Dr. David Boulware, professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Medicine, who wasn’t involved in either study, told The Epoch Times via email that he recommends people who recover from COVID-19 get at least one vaccine dose to generate long-term memory immune cells. But they should wait at least three months—preferably over six months—to get the jab, because the natural immunity takes time to fade.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That’s why so many vaccinated people get it.

[blackdog]

“We’ll see” said the wise man.

[SeekAndFind]

OK, we now have 5 studies whose results are different from this one study. Which one to believe and why?

Just today, we had this study come out....

RECOVERED COVID-19 FOLKS HAVE MORE POTENT ANTIBODY RESPONSE THAN VACCNATED FOLKS : 👇👇

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/05/study-finds-greater-antibody-response-in-recovered-covid-19-patients-than-vaccinated-ones/

A new study has found that individuals that have previously contracted COVID-19 show a more potent antibody response than those who were solely vaccinated for the respiratory virus.

Conducted by a research team at Rockefeller University in New York, the analysis found “that between a first (prime) and second (booster) shot of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, the memory B cells of infection-naïve individuals produced antibodies that evolved increased neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2,” but also that “no additional increase in the potency or breadth of this activity was observed thereafter.”

The study’s findings add to further mounting evidence detailing the level of protection natural immunity offers previously infected COVID-19 patients. Last month, Emory University published an extensive investigation describing the efficiency of long-term immunity against the respiratory virus. Similar discoveries have also been identified in research released by the Cleveland Clinic and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, respectively.

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For those interested in SUPPORTING STUDIES similar to Rockefeller University, here are some links:

STUDY RESULT FROM EMORY UNIVERSITY:

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/26/study-recovered-covid-19-patients-possess-robust-immunity-to-virus/

STUDY RESULTS FROM THE CLEVELAND CLINIC:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v3

STUDY RESULTS FROM THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Published in NATURE):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

Supporting studies from Israel’s Health Ministry:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762

[EXCERPT]

Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

SO, WHICH STUDY RESULTS TO BELIEVE?

[HypatiaTaught]

According to a new study, I found that jabbed folks are three times as likely to be a-holes than non-jabbed folks.

Data is everywhere.

[SeekAndFind]

OK, we now have 5 studies whose results are different from this one CDC study.

Which one to believe and why?

Just today, we had this study come out....

RECOVERED COVID-19 FOLKS HAVE MORE POTENT ANTIBODY RESPONSE THAN VACCINATED FOLKS : 👇👇

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/05/study-finds-greater-antibody-response-in-recovered-covid-19-patients-than-vaccinated-ones/

A new study has found that individuals that have previously contracted COVID-19 show a more potent antibody response than those who were solely vaccinated for the respiratory virus.

Conducted by a research team at Rockefeller University in New York, the analysis found “that between a first (prime) and second (booster) shot of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, the memory B cells of infection-naïve individuals produced antibodies that evolved increased neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2,” but also that “no additional increase in the potency or breadth of this activity was observed thereafter.”

The study’s findings add to further mounting evidence detailing the level of protection natural immunity offers previously infected COVID-19 patients. Last month, Emory University published an extensive investigation describing the efficiency of long-term immunity against the respiratory virus. Similar discoveries have also been identified in research released by the Cleveland Clinic and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, respectively.

For those interested in SUPPORTING STUDIES similar to Rockefeller University, here are some links:

STUDY RESULT FROM EMORY UNIVERSITY:

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/26/study-recovered-covid-19-patients-possess-robust-immunity-to-virus/

STUDY RESULTS FROM THE CLEVELAND CLINIC:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v3

STUDY RESULTS FROM THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Published in NATURE):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

Supporting studies from Israel’s Health Ministry:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762

[EXCERPT]

Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

SO, WHICH STUDY RESULTS TO BELIEVE?

[metmom]

People who have received a COVID-19 vaccine have more protection against the SARS-COV-2 virus than people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to a new study.

Depends some on how you set up the study.

This, however, contradicts everything we know about illness and vaccines.

IOW, I don’t believe it. They are desperately grasping at straws trying to find some thing, some way to convince people to take the vax.

[Deaf Smith]

This is great news!

The China Virus only has a 99.8% survival rate!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Nah.

[corkoman]

HOGWASH. "Case-controlled" is one of the lowest levels of study design validity and open to bias.

It is reckless to make proclimations as they are doing on the basis of a retrospective case-control study.

And what time periods are we looking at? They already have stated that the vaccines lose effect within 6 months.

Such BS.

[Responsibility2nd]

Like I would believe anything the CDC has to tell me. I’ve previously had Covid and I’ll stick with my natural antibodies. Thank you very much.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It doesn’t make any sense that a jury-rigged immune response from a piece of the virus would be better than the immune response to all the pieces of the virus.

[blackdog]

I trust my cardiologist. I’m getting a synchronization pacemaker next month and blood clots and or heart inflammation is a big no-no.

[blackdog]

The topic as a whole is toxic at this point. That’s why your Healthcare and government are not to co-mingle in my opinion. There is nothing government does well.

[House Atreides]

“ People who have received a COVID-19 vaccine have more protection against the SARS-COV-2 virus than people who have recovered from COVID-19, according to a new study.”
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I don’t believe this CDC study for one second!

[Rokke]

This is a useless study because it’s timeline is entirely before the delta variant. The vaccines were designed based on the Wuhan variant. They work against the Wuhan variant. They fail against the delta variant. That’s exactly what Israel and the UK have figured out. And what the US is about to figure out. Natural immunity ultimately works better against new variants because the current vaccines were laser focused on the old. In both Israel and the UK, only about 1% of COVID infections were people who had already recovered from COVID. All the smug vaccinated people in this country who think they are immune are going to learn the hard way that their vaccines can’t keep up with COVID.

[dkGba]

Lying sacks of crap. That’s absolutely impossible. The vaccines only offer immunity based on our recognition and response to one part of the virus -the spike proteins. Natural immunity offers immunity to every part of the virus using every part of your immune system defense

[Varsity Flight]

Galatians 6:7-9

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

[bramps]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get more evident that they want their diabolical jab in every human being on the planet.

[algore]

“It doesn’t make any sense that a jury-rigged immune response from a piece of the virus would be better than the immune response to all the pieces of the virus.”

it does if you understand how they worded the release.

My guess is they excluded all variants from the study and are talking specifically about the original Northwest Orient strain that has the exact spike protein that the immune system troopers should be looking for.