This Is Our Mandate: It All Needs to Stop Right Now

Editor's note: Let Kazakhstan be a warning: We've had enough (of Covidcrats and politicians) going on three years. Where did Omicron come from (from lab mice?) and was it "released" to bring down Covid? No more restrictions, no more Covid injections, no more testing, no more Covid passports, no QR codes, no more of these damn useless masks, no more mandates and lift all travel restrictions right now. 

Closing Down the Jab Centers 

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Source: The Daily Skeptic

Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccine Immunity, CDC Study Finds

By Will Jones | 20 January 2022

A study by the U.S. CDC (a Federal Government health agency) has found that natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity alone, and that being vaccinated on top makes little difference, confirming the findings of several studies in other countries.

The study looked at Covid infection and hospitalisation rates in California and New York during the Delta period, June to November 2021. The chart below shows the hazard rates over time for the four cohorts (no vaccine and no prior infection; no vaccine and prior infection; vaccine and no prior infection; vaccine and prior infection) for hospital admissions, adjusted for age – focus especially on the relative heights of the three dashed lines near the bottom.

The authors write: "These results demonstrate that vaccination protects against COVID-19 and related hospitalisation, and that surviving a previous infection protects against a reinfection and related hospitalisation." Note that the unvaccinated group here is split between those who are and are not previously infected, so is not directly comparable to the UKHSA data which does not make this distinction.

The authors note that, while prior to July the vaccinated were better off than the previously infected, come the summer and the arrival of Delta, prior infection was stronger.

Similar to the early period of this study, two previous U.S. studies found more protection from vaccination than from previous infection during periods before Delta predominance. As was observed in the present study after July, recent international studies have also demonstrated increased protection in persons with previous infection, with or without vaccination, relative to vaccination alone.

In a nod to the superior effect on the immune system of exposure to the virus, they comment : "This might be due to differential stimulation of the immune response by either exposure type."

The vaccines waned in efficacy over time and against Delta, the authors note: "Importantly, infection-derived protection was greater after the highly transmissible Delta variant became predominant, coinciding with early declining of vaccine-induced immunity in many persons.”

In contrast, protection from natural immunity didn't appear to wane: "Whereas French and Israeli population-based studies noted waning protection from previous infection, this was not apparent in the results from this or other large U.K. and U.S. studies."

The study findings were adjusted for age and controlled for prior infection status, but not for any other potential confounders, such as "behavioral or geographic differences in exposure risk", differences in testing behaviour, and "uncertainty in the population size of the unvaccinated group without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis". Unlike the UKHSA, which repeatedly states in its reports of similar data that such confounders are unknown and render the data unusable for estimating vaccine effectiveness (an equivalent quantity to hazard rate), the CDC authors just state: "Different trajectories between vaccinated persons with and without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis, and similar findings for cases and hospitalisations, suggest that these biases were minimal."

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