Posted on 06/03/2023 7:08:17 PM PDT by lightman
Nearly everyone in the United States has some form of protection against COVID-19, according to a new study.
Some 96.4 percent of people aged 16 and older who donated blood had evidence of antibodies against COVID-19, researchers found.
The bloods were analyzed between July and September 2022.
The percentage of people with antibodies was up from 93.5 percent during January to March 2022 and from 68.4 in mid 2021.
People had antibodies from prior infection, vaccination, or both.
Approximately 26 percent of people had antibodies from only vaccination, 22.6 percent had antibodies from only infection, and 47.7 percent had antibodies from both, researchers found.
Infection-induced immunity was more common among the unvaccinated in the cohort.
The studied cohort featured 142,748 people who donated blood at least twice in the preceding year.
Donated blood was tested for antibodies against the spike protein that both COVID-19 and the vaccines have, as well as nucleocapsid proteins that are produced when one is infected.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers worked with officials from the American Red Cross, Creative Testing Solutions, Vitalant, and Westat for the research, which was published by the CDC’s quasi-journal on June 2.
The increase in antibodies, or seroprevalence, “is likely contributing to lower rates of severe disease and death from COVID-19 in 2022–2023 than during the early pandemic,” the CDC researchers said.
Many studies have found that natural immunity is similar to or better than protection bestowed by vaccines, including a recent paper funded by the CDC. The effectiveness of the vaccines has fallen as newer strains have emerged, dropping to near-zero against infection after several months and just 24 percent against hospitalization among healthy people after 120 days.
But the CDC researchers asserted that the new study provides evidence that vaccination still protects against infection.
They pointed to how unvaccinated people had higher rates of infection than vaccinated people did, though they acknowledged that other factors could play a role.
“The differences in incidence could also be due to systematic differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated persons in terms of the prevalence of practicing prevention behaviors such as masking and physical distancing. The relative difference in infection rates narrowed during the most recent months, possibly because of waning of vaccine-induced protection against infection in the setting of increased time after vaccination or immune evasion by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant,” they wrote.
“The narrowing of difference in infection rates might also be attributable to increasing similarities in behavior among vaccinated and unvaccinated persons during late 2022.”
Limitations of the research include no information being available on the number of vaccine doses the blood donors had received, the time since their last vaccination, and any reinfections.
Other Recent Seroprevalence Studies
Other recent studies have also found that many people have evidence of prior infection or vaccination.
Researchers in Uganda, for instance, reported in May that analysis of more than 5,000 blood samples tested in early 2022 showed that 82.5 percent had evidence of prior infection, vaccination, or both. That was up nine-fold from earlier in the pandemic.
“Despite previously reported low numbers of COVID-19 cases and related deaths in Uganda, high SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and increasing antibody levels among blood donors indicated that the country experienced high levels of infection over the course of the pandemic,” the researchers said.
Italian researchers also recently said that in 2020, 47.8 percent of the more than 25,000 voluntary blood donors in the city of Modena had tested positive for antibodies against nucleocapsid proteins but that the percentage jumped to 66 percent by March 2021 and 68 percent by July 2022.
Most of the donors did not experience symptoms when they contracted COVID-19, the researchers said.
In a smaller U.S. study of 2,584 life insurance applicants conducted across two days in April 2022, researchers found that 97.3 percent of the group were seropositive, with 63.9 percent having antibodies signaling prior infection and 33.7 percent having been vaccinated with no signs of previous infection.
Get exposed, don't get jabbed.
Now, many have lost the ability to fight of coronaviruses after taking the Jim Jone Jab.
Just ask the Amish...
Ja!
Get exposed, don't get jabbed.
Correct. All we had to do was to protect our elderly so they don't get infected all at once. That's what we saw in Lombardy, Italy and New York City at the beginning. All the people who were dying were elderly. But if you're young, proceed as normal.
BINGO.
Keep Grandma safe.
Don’t kill the economy out of fear of killing Grandma.
The epidemic of fear is ALWAYS more destructive than the epidemic of disease.
From the article:
Approximately 26 percent of people had antibodies from only vaccination, 22.6 percent had antibodies from only infection, and 47.7 percent had antibodies from both, researchers found.
Questions: What portion of the cohort had been vaccinated? How many times? How many vaccinated people also have had positive Covid tests? Is this paragraph saying that 22.6% had antibodies through natural immunity only? How do they account for people with antibodies who had Covid but never knew it because they were asymptomatic?
Infection-induced immunity was more common among the unvaccinated in the cohort.
This is a cliff-hanger. HOW MUCH MORE common was immunity due to infection alone? And again, do they account for asymptomatic cases where there is immunity?
Natural immunity known , at least, since the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. ~Thucydides
I had the Wu Hu Flu in the spring of 2020 No jabs
My antibodies were tested in
Sept 2021... great antibodies
Sept 2022 ...great antibodies
Sept 2023 ...???????????
I am elderly and after about 1 month of seclusion I said “ To hell with this,I’m going out. “……….and here I am.
……
Yeah, that’s because nearly everyone has had a cold and/or the flu before.
Yup.
“COVID zero” (and its American permutation) was Sisyphian attempt to eliminate the common cold.
6 in my immediate family and only one of us (my youngest boy) ever got it, and what he had was so mild as to be laughable.
How would anyone know if or not they’d been exposed?
Wait, what? I thought vaccines stop you from getting the infection? You mean this one didn't work that way? That sure isn't the way I understood the selling points.
“Some 96.4 percent of people . . . had evidence of antibodies against COVID-19.
“Approximately 26 percent of people had antibodies from only vaccination, 22.6 percent had antibodies from only infection, and 47.7 percent had antibodies from both, researchers found.
“Infection-induced immunity was more common among the unvaccinated in the cohort.”
OK, maybe I am math impaired, but that last line doesn’t make sense. If I am doing the math right, 73.7 percent of the sample had antibodies and were vaccinated. And about half of the sample had both the vaccine and an infection. Seems to me then that about 2/3rds of the folks that were vaccinated also got the infection.
Or are they being tricky and are really saying that 100% of the people that had infection-induced immunity only were not vaccinated? Uh, of course.
How would anyone know if or not they’d been exposed?
At the 96.4 positivity rate....YOU can pretty much bet on having been exposed :-)
Look how many other coronaviruses (flus/colds) you’ve been exposed to, in your lifetime.
We told folks this, from day one...yet, the $hills had to push fear and $hots....for something that REAL scientists/docs knew would provide herd immunity, MUCH SOONER, had it been left alone (no jabs).
Thank you, FRAUDci, CDC, hospitals, Froctors and $hot $hills.
Exactly.
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