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What happened to #FollowTheScience? Global data/research confirm #NaturalImmunity is robust & their is no discernable benefit beyond antibody production. Those with past #COVID infection are at very little risk of reinfection, hospitalization, or death. 1/
Recommending #COVID19 vax even if you've had #COVID is #AntiScience. @ClevelandClinic found not 1/1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated were reinfected. Those w/ prior infection "are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination" medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/
#Naturalmmunity against #COVID-19 in #India significantly reduces the risk of reinfection: findings from a cohort of sero-survey participants - only 3/1170 were reinfected w/ 1 hospitalization (but didn't require O2 support or critical care medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 3/
📍A revealing outbreak among gold miners infected with #P1 #GammaVariant in French Guiana—55% of 44 infected—no severe but 87% symptomatic—65% fever, 22% difficultly breathing. Attack rate was 60% in fully Pfizer-vaccinated, 75% in unvaccinated miners.🧵
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2) It all likely started with an asymptomatic index case… “Patient 40 could be the index case-patient; he reported visiting his family the previous week and had an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection with Ct of 33–35.” 👀—a very low viral load index that triggered the cluster!
3) Any vaccine cold chain break? No. “Several BNT162b2 batch numbers were involved. Vaccine temperature had been monitored and electronically recorded by LogTag Analyzer (LogTag Recorders, logtag-recorders.com) without any break in the cold chain.”
