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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

Posted on 06/15/2022 6:22:22 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; omicron; reinfection; variant
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To: D Rider

Nope. 50K is a typical flu year in the US.


41 posted on 06/15/2022 7:21:23 AM PDT by Owen
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To: SeekAndFind

it’s a head cold.


42 posted on 06/15/2022 7:42:10 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Owen

Typical. You did not read what I wrote. The only reason covid overtook the Spanish flu, is that the world population has increased by a factor of 4 since 1918.


43 posted on 06/15/2022 8:13:22 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: D Rider

That’s a valid factor. Certainly not a typical flu.

Factoid, H1N1 is still included in yearly flu shots.


44 posted on 06/15/2022 8:36:25 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Blood of Tyrants wrote: “So the clot shot does absolutely no good. Glad I got the primary strain in Dec 2020.”

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.

Clearly, this is addressing ‘natural immunity’ not the vaccines.


45 posted on 06/15/2022 8:38:34 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

S’why I haven’t stopped rigidly self-administering the Zelenko protocol, despite having had the Omicron variant (which the Zelenko treatment protocol cured in less than 48 hours).


46 posted on 06/15/2022 8:43:10 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: SeekAndFind

It looks to me that the vax leaves you with a damaged immune system, and so the vax’d wind up getting reinfected again and again.


47 posted on 06/15/2022 8:54:30 AM PDT by marron
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To: Skywise

Or the common cold.🤔


48 posted on 06/15/2022 9:40:40 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The clot shot does no good and actually weakens the immune system. We know that natural immunity allows the body to recognize a wide range of variants, but the clot shot results in a very limited response that quickly wanes. The more shots you get, the more likely you are to get sick from some trivial variation of the virus.


49 posted on 06/15/2022 9:43:23 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Owen

The problem is if someone dies with wu-flu they were considered to have died of wu-flu.🙄


50 posted on 06/15/2022 9:47:05 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Owen

“In 2020 there was no defense. New England was smashed, meaning the old folks there. 1000s of Covid dead per day.”

Patently false. at peak deaths reported in or around April 2020, Massachusetts averaged 150 deaths a day. RI 20, NH 20. Didnt bother to look at VT or ME. At most in New England 250 a day tops. Nice try.
I used worldometer if your wondering where info from


51 posted on 06/15/2022 9:58:34 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

You may be right and I phrased it differently. If you scroll down to the national death curve for Spring 2020 you’ll see 2500ish dead per day. My recall was concentration in New England because it had not spread yet. Maybe it had.

Clearly 1000s of dead per day, but nationally. The locale wasn’t really important to the point, which was total lack of defense.


52 posted on 06/15/2022 10:04:29 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Lockbox

Covid is morphing into another flu.
We get vaxxed for flu AND get sick with flu, and the damn virus morphs enough to infect us again year after year.


53 posted on 06/15/2022 11:53:10 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: OHPatriot; All
Agree, exercise is a VERY KEY component to a healthy lifestyle. Supplements help, but exercise, simple walking 10-15,000 steps a day does wonders. Supplements won’t help couch potatoes much if at all.

Memo to all Freepers....OHPatriot is 100% correct. Please follow his advice. The longer every Freeper lives in good health, more the benefits to all of us who do not vote democrat.

I am totally in shock how good I feel at age 82. And all I do is 15 minute treadmill set at brisk walking pace with 1 lb weights strapped on each wrist which I swing around to maintain upper body flexibility. And then I do 30 pulls on the weight machine, which is set so I can easily pull the weights without any injury to muscles or tendons.

54 posted on 06/15/2022 12:02:01 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: SeekAndFind; ransomnote; Jane Long
Thanks SeekAndFind.

*PING* to the girls.

As front line doctors and others have predicted, original antigenic sin:

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.

55 posted on 06/15/2022 1:11:53 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: entropy12

No. It’s called “Original Antigenic Sin” and had been predicted by those honest scientists you pro-jab trolls like to dismiss as quacks.


56 posted on 06/15/2022 1:14:07 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DugwayDuke
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.

You're a bald faced liar.

57 posted on 06/15/2022 1:21:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “continual rise in cases” has much more to do with the continuing, irrational testing of healthy people than from anything else ... including the damage done to peoples’ once-effective immune systems by the Fauci Flu “vaccines” ... especially in children.


58 posted on 06/15/2022 1:25:27 PM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: grey_whiskers

grey_whiskers wrote: “You’re a bald faced liar.”

If you had read the article, you would have found this:

“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.”

You must mean the Telegraph is a liar.


59 posted on 06/15/2022 1:38:32 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

No. You’re a liar.

You said it was about natural immunity.

I gave you a direct quote from the source talking about lack of immunity among the triple-jabbed.

You chose...poorly.


60 posted on 06/15/2022 1:42:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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