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Should people with natural immunity be exempt from vaccine mandates? New bill introduced in Congress argues yes. Health experts say no.
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 10/24/2021 | Caroline Catherman

Posted on 10/25/2021 12:19:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

COVID-19 vaccine mandates shouldn’t apply to people with immunity acquired through infection, suggest sponsors of the ‘’Natural Immunity Is Real Act.”

Experts on bioethics and immunology disagree, and note that there is little to no debate in the scientific community about the existence of natural immunity, gained by infection from exposure to disease, rather than by vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many studies suggest natural immunity fades over time, and a vaccine improves immunity in people who have already had COVID-19.

“This is bad science, dangerous policy and saddest of all, ideology tricked out as ethics,” said Kenneth Goodman, director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and the Florida Bioethics Network.

The bill, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday by Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger, asks that federal regulations take into account natural immunity to COVID-19. Discussion by the bill’s sponsors indicates it is one of the latest objections to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the U.S.

Tension is especially high in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced he would call a special session of the Legislature in November to ban local governments and agencies from mandating COVID-19 vaccines. He has also threatened to sue President Joe Biden’s administration over its mandate for some businesses to vaccinate or test workers for COVID-19. In the meantime, multiple Florida congressmen endorsed this bill, which is unlikely to pass in the Democrat-controlled House. The bill has also been introduced in the Senate.

“No American should be forced to choose between getting the COVID vaccine or keeping their job,” said Florida’s eighth district Rep. Bill Posey. Posey and Rep. Daniel Webster, Florida’s 11th district representative, are co-sponsoring the bill in the house alongside nine other Republican congressmen

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congress; covid; naturalimmunity; vaccines
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To: SeekAndFind

She me body is making lots of money with their faux science.


81 posted on 10/25/2021 3:02:25 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: RetiredTexasVet

See post 80.
Not a medical doctor at all.


82 posted on 10/25/2021 3:03:32 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: From The Deer Stand

Damn spell check!!! Somebody is the word......


83 posted on 10/25/2021 3:04:09 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: combat_boots

“Just who is exempt and why?”
Postal employees and Congress.
Why? Because they said so


84 posted on 10/25/2021 3:08:54 PM PDT by hans56 (I'm not tired of winning yet)
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To: LilFarmer
Dude, I bow to your greatness. Freeper gold standard stuff!

Bookmark : Awesome selection of naturally-acquired COVID immunity studies.

That Israeli study, your #2, that one is the slam-dunk.

85 posted on 10/25/2021 3:09:48 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the CDC an NGO or is it US government controlled agency?


86 posted on 10/25/2021 3:11:25 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: Texas resident; All

It is a bio weapon. Dems used it for (stay at home) mail in voting fraud. Big pharma is using it for MONEY. Governments are using it to CONTROL the population, and mandates forcing layoffs increasing unemployment and further destruction of the economy. COVID is a fuster cluck on so many levels.


87 posted on 10/25/2021 3:13:08 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: metmom
"Natural immunity is bad science but untested, experimental injections that are showing themselves to not be working are what?

Good science?"

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Remember when the healthcare industry was pushing baby formula as better than breast milk? Idiots!

88 posted on 10/25/2021 3:14:20 PM PDT by VinnieCCT
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To: dynoman

Can’t the same be said for the common cold? I also would refute that the clot shot gives immunity at all, it is the impetus for variations in the virus that keeps on infecting both the pure bloods and the stupid bio reactors, who took the experimental genetic therapeutic.

If you have a doctor who will not prescribe you Ivermectin, or HCQ as a prophylactic aid in prevention and treatment of CV-19, get a new doctor. He or she is an idiot.


89 posted on 10/25/2021 3:14:52 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: ifinnegan

Because such (self-appointed bureaucrats) get $$ pushing this crappola.


90 posted on 10/25/2021 3:16:16 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I would preclude the vaxxed. In my experience with family members who visited, they bring symptoms, if not disease with them. Those who had the virus and recovered, bring nothing but themselves.


91 posted on 10/25/2021 3:17:03 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: NEMDF

The fear that the vaxxed and their government masters have, is NOT that they will get sick. It is that the pure bloods, WILL NOT COMPLY. They don’t care about spreading the virus, they care about the viral spread of LIBERTY.


92 posted on 10/25/2021 3:19:14 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: Semper Vigilantis

1400 sounds more than adequate for protection. You wife’s immune system may be different than you or it could be the moderna shot reducing her levels...who knows.


93 posted on 10/25/2021 3:24:30 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Natural immunity should count.

The scientific debate is how many antibodies are required to be part of the herd immunity?

There is no “bright line” or numeric value of the “correct” number of anti-bodies.

94 posted on 10/25/2021 3:56:30 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: VinnieCCT

Yup, and I think I’m paying the price for that now.


95 posted on 10/25/2021 4:03:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: SeekAndFind

Better yet, make COVID vaccine mandates illegal.


96 posted on 10/25/2021 4:22:12 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I had COVID this past summer so I have natural immunity. Why should I get the fax?


97 posted on 10/25/2021 4:43:52 PM PDT by murron
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To: RainMan

# I really hate that I dont feel I can trust anything that comes out of the CDC anymore. They issue papers to present a particular narrative they want to push, instead of science.

The CDC has been a wholly owned subsidiary of big pharma for decades. It has simply become too obvious now.


98 posted on 10/25/2021 5:42:59 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: ifinnegan

Lots of health experts say men can get pregnant. That tells one all one needs to know.


99 posted on 10/25/2021 5:54:29 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Erebus67

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”


100 posted on 10/25/2021 6:26:31 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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