Natural Immunity Better Than Protection From COVID-19 Vaccination: Study

• Natural Immunity Better Than Protection From COVID-19 Vaccination: Study
  by Zachary Stieber, https://www.theepochtimes.com/health
  People who recovered from COVID-19 were better off than those who received a COVID-19 vaccine, researchers find.
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  People with protection against COVID-19 following recovery from the illness were better protected than those who received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new study. People who received a vaccine were nearly five times as likely as the naturally immune to test positive for COVID-19 during the Delta era and 1.1 times as likely to test positive for COVID-19 during the Omicron era, researchers in Estonia found.
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  The vaccinated were also seven times as likely to be admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 amid the spread of the Delta variant and two times as likely to be admitted to a hospital during the Omicron period, when compared with the naturally immune, the researchers found.
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  “Our study showed that natural immunity offers stronger and longer-lasting protection against infection, symptoms, and hospitalization compared to vaccine-induced immunity,” Dr. Anneli Uusküla, with the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Tartu, and her co-authors wrote.
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  Previous studies have also found that post-infection immunity is superior to or similar to the protection bestowed by vaccines. Dr. Uusküla and her colleagues said they felt there were gaps in the literature on the subject, prompting them to work on the study.
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