- A study has found that natural immunity following COVID-19 infection provides protection against severe illness that is superior to that imparted by the COVID vaccines.
- Researchers revealed they found people who survived COVID-19 infection, and were not vaccinated, had outstanding protection against severe COVID disease or death from COVID, says a preprint article published at MedRxiv.
- “Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3% … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning,” the researchers noted. “Similar results were found in sub-group analyses for those ≥50 years of age.”
