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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by lukeschlather on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:07PM (#27455553)
How do you know your anti-vax friend was actually infected? I think a very real risk is that people decide they don't need the vaccine based on false-positive tests or otherwise mis-diagnosed illness.

This study appears to be based on following up with a single hospital's own database of people who tested positive. But I imagine you would get different results if you just found a bunch of people and asked them to self-report their prior infection status before enrolling them in the study.

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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by handmodel on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:42PM (#27455778)
He was tested twice and came back positive both times - many people in his workplace had it. He 100% had it.

Agree on the self-reporting, but I guess my larger point is he already doesn't want to get the vax and people telling him that his natural immunity is not sufficient makes him even more distrustful since he does know enough about science/statistics to see that natural immunity is about equal with a vaccine as far as we can tell.

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