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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by Reason077 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:39AM (#26709528)
> "Which part of the world has "natural immunity" to Covid? The fraction of people who had Covid compared to those who had not is almost negligible almost everywhere?"

It's been reported that more than half of the UK population now has Covid antibodies, either through recent infection or through vaccination:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/about-50-of-pe...

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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by Ichthypresbyter on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:32AM (#26709870)
The most recent Dutch data has 21% of blood donors with antibodies.

https://www.sanquin.nl/over-sanquin/nieuws/2021/03/corona-an...

Interestingly, the percentage is higher (26%) in the southern provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant, which were hit hardest by the first wave due to a combination of Carnival (only celebrated in those areas) and differently timed February school vacations.

Some of this probably is a vaccination effect- they've noticed that women were more likely to have antibodies than men, and more of the female donors were healthcare workers.

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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by midasuni on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:10AM (#26709730)
About 45% of the U.K. has had at least one vaccine shot
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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by _Microft on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:50AM (#26709595)
GP is clearly not talking about vaccinations.
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