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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: grey_whiskers

grey_whiskers wrote: “No. You’re a liar. You said it was about natural immunity.”

Read the first three paragraphs.


61 posted on 06/15/2022 1:48:41 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t take the experimental treatments, survive to tell others. That works for me and mine. 3 adults, one 96, two in their 60’s with cancer, undergoing treatments... zero deaths.

Us the protocols of vitamins, minerals, supplements including Ivermectin and budesonide.


62 posted on 06/15/2022 1:57:14 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: SeekAndFind

The $hots lower one’s immunity....and, cause variants to keep on keeping on.

Their excuses are growing SO old.

Old as FRAUDci.


63 posted on 06/15/2022 1:59:03 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's the reason that Omicron evades the jabbed and does not incur durable immunity

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328102

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.18.22271936v1.full

From the pre-print

“anti-nucleocapsid antibody seroconversion at the time of study unblinding (median 53 days post diagnosis and 149 days post enrollment) occurred in 40% of the mRNA-1273 vaccine recipients vs. 93% of the placebo recipients, a significant difference.”

The Jab inhibits the immune systems ability to produce N protein antibodies (anti-nucleocapsid) as its only targeted at the spike protein( S-protein) which is highly mutable.

64 posted on 06/15/2022 2:10:44 PM PDT by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: DugwayDuke

...it covers *BOTH*.


65 posted on 06/15/2022 2:40:19 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

These people are obsessed about this flu.


66 posted on 06/15/2022 2:41:56 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: SeekAndFind

You mean the rise in US Covid cases has nothing to do with the Biden administration seeding the country with illegal aliens coming over the border without any oversight and sent all over the country.


67 posted on 06/15/2022 2:48:57 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: nitzy
What I'm hearing is that people who have been triple vaxxed, don't have any immunity from future infections.


68 posted on 06/15/2022 4:17:04 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: grey_whiskers

What is the title of the article?


69 posted on 06/15/2022 4:23:17 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the flu now morons. Put away your masks and your hypochondria.


70 posted on 06/15/2022 4:25:24 PM PDT by Clemenza (In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
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To: grey_whiskers

You need to get educated in statistics.
600 miilion jabs given to Americans so far.
You have any links showing percentage of adverse effects from 600 million jabs?
I want all you anti-vaxxers to SKIP the jabs. We can send your doses to poor countries around the world who are desperate but can’t afford the jabs.
Last point, covid vaccines are no more effective than Flu vaccines. Just like flu vaccines, the continuously morphing virus makes previous jabs ineffective. From my personal experience 16 months after first jab and 3 more jabs since then, the vaccine is a big nothing burger in giving me adverse side effects. Not even sure if it created any anti-bodies. But since they are such nothing Burgers for side effects and free of cost, I plan on getting boosters every time I am eligible for a free jab.


71 posted on 06/16/2022 9:46:20 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: entropy12

We DO have proof of adverse events known to Pfizer and Moderna and the government during abbreviated trials.
Bad enough to have shut down any real vaccine, which these are not.
(What other vaccine requires six-month boosters for life?)
(And for a disease with a > 99% survival rate, for which other prescription and/or OTC treatments are effective, and for which the overwhelming number of dead had four or more comorbidities.)

We don’t know how long the jabs induce your body to continue making spike proteins.
We don’t know the concentration of active ingredients (it varies between large lots of batches, and between various manufacturers).
We don’t know the long-term morbidity and mortality associated with the jabs.
We don’t know how many got saline solution, or fake jabs.

Sod off, Swampy.


72 posted on 06/16/2022 9:58:09 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I implored you to skip the jabs.
Then there is no reason to bitch and moan about the experimental mRNA based vaccine.

That’s the same advice I give to all anti-vaxxers.
The vaccines have questionable benefits. I take the jabs because there are zero adverse effects and they are free.
May be 50-50 chance they might be helpful.


73 posted on 06/16/2022 2:05:37 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: entropy12

And you’re wrong. They are demonstrably more harmful than any real vaccine ever given.


74 posted on 06/16/2022 8:31:13 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: grey_whiskers

So? Don’t take the jabs and then you have no reason to keep whining. Feel lucky you don’t live in China. There you will be locked up behind bars for refusing the jabs.

Sincce 16 months after 1st Jab, and 3 more jabs since then, octogenaranian me had ZERO ADVERSE EFFECTS and the nothing burger vaccines allowed me to enjoy 5 cruises, while you were relegated to whine on FR.


75 posted on 06/16/2022 8:38:42 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: entropy12

Sod off, troll.


76 posted on 06/16/2022 8:49:44 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: grey_whiskers

Yeah I understand. Facts do not digest well in your system.


77 posted on 06/16/2022 9:45:35 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: entropy12

You’re projecting again.


78 posted on 06/16/2022 10:30:38 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

Time will tell but this seems to be the end game for COVID-19. Omicron variant is basically like another cold. It’ll continue to mutate so it’ll be more contagious but less deadly. We shouldn’t see variants like Delta because the lethality rate was rather high. The virus wants to spread rather than hit a dead end so we’ll see.


79 posted on 06/16/2022 10:36:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Skywise

Or cold


80 posted on 06/16/2022 10:38:56 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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