Healty Immunity: 100,000 Years and 7 Billion Customers Can't All Be Wrong. LOL Survival of the Fittest, biatchez. Get phat, get lazy, get sloppy, ymmv. Twas Ever Thus.
Pfizer says 3 shots and your good to go against omicron. While S. Africa reports breakthrough infections in persons with 2 shots. I heard this morning while driving that omicron reduces vaccine efficacy 40x in S Africa but boosters increase efficacy 35x (can’t remember exact numbers) so initial take is with boosters omicron is a wash.
Why don't you take a closer look at the CDC study which demonstrates very clearly that Covid vaccination provides over 5 times the protection of a prior infection. This is a large-scale study which breaks down the information by age, gender race, month, times since vaccination or previous infection, and vaccine type (Pfizerr/Moderna). The data is conclusive and obviously demonstrates that "natural immunity" is far inferior to Covid vaccination. Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Among Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19–Like Illness with Infection-Induced or mRNA Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Immunity — Nine States, January–September 2021 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm?s_cid=mm7044e1_w November 5, 2021 What is already known about this topic? Previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 vaccination can provide immunity and protection against subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection and illness. What is added by this report? Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection (95% confidence interval = 2.75–10.99). What are the implications for public health practice? All eligible persons should be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible, including unvaccinated persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Here is the news release from Pfizer on this subject - https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...r-and-biontech-provide-update-omicron-variant
Harvard Medical School professor Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and biostatistician who now serves as senior scientific director of Brownstone Institute, writes that the study instead answers the question of “whether vaccination or Covid recovery is more related to Covid hospitalization or if it is more related to other respiratory type hospitalizations." The groupings in the study were not designed to compare natural immunity to vaccination conferred immunity. Read it yourself, the initial grouping is screwy.
With Delta -- South Africa had 24% of their hospitalized patients in ICU. Having only 8% in ICU with Omicron is an improvement and may show that Omicron is less severe than Delta. Only 8% of hospitalised Covid patients in South Africa's Omicron ground zero now get admitted to ICU which is just a THIRD of level seen during Delta wave, fuelling hopes that the super-mutant variant IS milder EXCLUSIVE: Official figures show 139 patients were in ICU in South Africa's epicentre Gauteng on Monday For comparison, at the same point in the Delta wave the province had 393 patients in the emergency wards British experts said immunity from vaccines and past infection was likely holding up against Omicron They also did not rule out the possibility that the mutant strain could be less virulent than first feared https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...South-African-province-HALF-levels-Delta.html
Omicron puts travel bans and vaccines inequity front and centre in pandemic politics World Health Organization praises South Africa and Botswana for reporting the new Covid-19 variant, decries travel restrictions imposed against African nations Experts also say the sharp inequities in access to vaccines raise the risk of the emergence of pandemic variants https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci...l-bans-and-vaccines-inequity-front-and-centre
Europe: all omicron cases asymptotic or mild https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/epidemiological-update-omicron-data-8-december