Catching Omicron Covid variant 'does NOT provide immunity from reinfection', scientists reveal - saying it helps explain the continued rise in cases

Daily Mail ^ | 06/14/2022 | Stewart Carr

[SeekAndFind]

Covid sufferers who caught the Omicron variant will not be protected from catching it again, according to scientists at Imperial College London.

The investigators say Omicron and its evolutions could explain why Covid cases remain higher than predicted in the UK.

Earlier studies found that past illnesses with Covid provided some immunity against re-infection - but the latest research indicates that is not the case with the Omicron variant, The Telegraph reports.

Prof Danny Altmann from the Imperial College's Department of Immunology and Inflammation, said: 'The message is a little bleak. Omicron and its variants are great at breakthroughs but bad at inducing immunity, thus we get reinfections ad nauseum and a badly depleted workforce.

'Not only can it break through vaccine defences, it looks to leave very few of the hallmarks we'd expect on the immune system.

'It's more stealthy than previous variants and flies under the radar, so the immune system is unable to remember it.'

Researchers have been attempting to understand why people become reinfected with omicron, often soon after recovering from a previous spell of the disease.

Blood samples were collected from UK healthcare workers who were triple-vaccinated and with different infection patterns with Covid in order to understand antibody, T and B cell immunity.

The research uncovered that among those who were triple-vaccinated with no past infection, Omicron provided an immunity boost against earlier variants such as alpha, beta, gamma and the original ancestral strain - but practically none against Omicron itself.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So the clot shot does absolutely no good. Glad I got the primary strain in Dec 2020.

[SeekAndFind]

HOWEVER, FROM THE REPORT ITSELF...

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Covid-19 deaths registered in England and Wales have continued to fall, though the size of the drop has been affected by the Jubilee bank holidays.

A total of 186 deaths registered in the seven days to June 3 mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

This is down 55% week-on-week and is the lowest number since July 2021.

The latest total covers a period that includes the bank holidays marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on June 2 and 3, when most register offices were closed

[KarlInOhio]

But somehow the vaccination created for the original strain provides 100% immunity... Or something like that... Depending on the breaks.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Glad I got the primary strain in Dec 2020.

But will it give you immunity from Omicron and its multiplying subvariants?

[Skywise]

Oh… like the regular flu?

[DoodleBob]

Imperial College London

Neil Ferguson, a mathematical epidemiologist at Imperial College London, panicked policy makers around the world when he released his computer model projecting that the coronavirus pandemic would result in 500,000 deaths in the U.K. and 2.2 million in the U.S.

[1malumprohibitum]

Isn’t that exactly what a designer bio weapon would do?

[D Rider]

The question is, how does that compare to the natural immunity gained by previous versions of covid? And is the lack of immunity in the vaxxed population only or is it everybody?

[Leep]

Thanks for the warning but..

I’ll take my chances as a free citizen.

[entropy12]

Best defence against any respiratory virus is regular exercise to keep lungs healthy. Sedentary life style uses only part of lungs and that provides virus places to grow and replicate in unused part of lungs, with phlegm & very little oxygen present.

[skeeter]

I have heard while Omicron antibodies will provide some protection from Covid 19 the reverse isn’t true. I know several people who have had both, Covid 19 first then Omicron.

[Sirius Lee]

Nothing gives you immunity from the common cold, which this is at this point.

Take some C, D, Zinc and Quercetin. Everyone needs to stop being such covidfags.

[butlerweave]

Back of matchbook scientists ?

[Jim Noble]

RE: Glad I got the primary strain in Dec 2020. But will it give you immunity from Omicron and its multiplying subvariants?

Nope.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So far, it has. I got a mild case of covid and if I caught a variant, it was so mild that I never noticed it.

[entropy12]

Article says previously acquired immunity is likely for an older variant. The new variant is sneaky with different signature and flies under the radar to remain undetected.

[Jim Noble]

Isn’t that exactly what a designer bio weapon would do?

The "designers" are not good enough to model molecular evolution under pressure from human immune systems all over the world 30 months out, so, no.

[Triple]

Gee…

Is there a difference in ability to build a natural defense against omicron between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals?

I am guessing (hypothesis) that there is a huge difference.

[entropy12]

I take none of those supplements and have not cought a cold or cough in 15+ years at age 82. My defence is daily mild exercise.