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The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid
Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/26/2022 | Dr. Makary

Posted on 01/26/2022 12:53:31 PM PST by PhxRising

Public-health officials ruined many lives by insisting that workers with natural immunity to Covid-19 be fired if they weren’t fully vaccinated. But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear. By firing staff with natural immunity, employers got rid of those least likely to infect others. It’s time to reinstate those employees with an apology.

For most of last year, many of us called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to release its data on reinfection rates, but the agency refused. Finally last week, the CDC released data from New York and California, which demonstrated natural immunity was 2.8 times as effective in preventing hospitalization and 3.3 to 4.7 times as effective in preventing Covid infection compared with vaccination.

Yet the CDC spun the report to fit its narrative, bannering the conclusion “vaccination remains the safest strategy.” It based this conclusion on the finding that hybrid immunity—the combination of prior infection and vaccination—was associated with a slightly lower risk of testing positive for Covid. But those with hybrid immunity had a similar low rate of hospitalization (3 per 10,000) to those with natural immunity alone. In other words, vaccinating people who had already had Covid didn’t significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; cdc; chinavirus; covid19; covidstooges; drfauci; faucicorrupt; immunity; makary; naturalimmunity; obamacare; presidentbiden; vaccinemandates; vaccines Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: PhxRising

2 posted on 01/26/2022 12:56:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: PhxRising; ransomnote

Ping


3 posted on 01/26/2022 12:57:03 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

4 posted on 01/26/2022 12:57:23 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

1. The pandemic is to force you to get the vaccine

2. The vaccine is to force you to get the vaccine passport

3. The vaccine passport is to push you into the social credit system

4. The social credit system is to force you into obeying the government

Emerald Robinson, 2021


5 posted on 01/26/2022 12:58:02 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Apology my rear end, make it a check with at least 6 zeroes for every person FIRED


6 posted on 01/26/2022 1:02:56 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: PhxRising

Good to see the Wall Street Journal getting its head out of its hind-quarters.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 1:03:56 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: PhxRising

And those of us who get it shouldn’t be required to submit to further testing either! My employer gave me some load of crap on why I still need to test....because of all those other variants!!!!!


8 posted on 01/26/2022 1:05:12 PM PST by piusv (Francis didn't start the Fire)
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To: MtnClimber

I got Omicron in late December. I want to go to Canada in late July. Therefore I’m carefully planning my required booster for travel to Canada after 90 days (some think that’s how long it lasts) of natural immunity has expired, but within guidelines for travel.

I don’t want to mix a booster shot with existing natural immunity. Seems not a good idea.

But meanwhile every Cal State and UC student, even if they all got covid over winter break, has to be boosted IMMEDIATELY AFTER COVID therefore, before spring break starts.


9 posted on 01/26/2022 1:16:06 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: PhxRising

Any particular reason you’re bypassing FR’s excerpting guidelines and the copyright law?


10 posted on 01/26/2022 1:19:47 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Antoninus

This article is published in the OpEd section of the WSJ which is still fairly conservative. The rest of the paper, not at all.


11 posted on 01/26/2022 1:20:46 PM PST by Fair Paul
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To: MtnClimber
The Red Cross used to tell you your Fauci/China biological warfare virus antibody status when you gave blood, but Lord Fauci told them to stop.


12 posted on 01/26/2022 1:58:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: MtnClimber
It’s time to reinstate those employees with an apology.

And a $150,000 bonus.

13 posted on 01/26/2022 1:59:49 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

Any terminated employee who is asked to return to work by such tyrants should consider the employer does not deserve any respect and the employee should reject the offer OUTRIGHT.

I say: “Do everything possible to put the tyrants out of business.”

Any employer who mercilessly put me out on the street would never see me come back BUT I would demand the employer pay me for the calloused disrespect shown me.

I can’t imagine any employer would apologize for firing you because it would be an admission they badly and unfairly mistreated you.


14 posted on 01/26/2022 2:23:15 PM PST by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

Sue their a** off!


15 posted on 01/26/2022 2:48:48 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: MtnClimber

Further info: https://archive.is/QTVdd


16 posted on 01/26/2022 2:51:59 PM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: olivia3boys
90 days (some think that’s how long it lasts) of natural immunity

Some think it lasts for years -- decades, even.

17 posted on 01/26/2022 3:13:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: PhxRising

full wsj article:

https://archive.is/QTVdd


18 posted on 01/26/2022 4:31:51 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science ...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Some think it lasts for years — decades, even.
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I had Covid in August. I was down for 7 days. I caught Covid a few days ago, tested positive and had fever and sore throat for ONE day.


19 posted on 01/26/2022 6:39:10 PM PST by delta7
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