Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible delta variant

Re:Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible de... by renaudg on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:02PM (#27785103)

That's not equivalent unfortunately.

Vaccine-induced immunity has been shown to offer much broader protection than natural post-infection immunity, and reinfections are not rare with Delta.

Here's a recent study : https://twitter.com/OYCar/status/1412656966481039367?s=20

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Re:Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible de... by rajin444 on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:14PM (#27785246)

It looks like that study was done on < 300 people. Is that strong evidence?

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Re:Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible de... by hammock on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:03PM (#27787287)

That study, done in a lab and not in the real world, contradicts the latest real-world science on this issue. The two relevant studies:

1) A report in Nature that the natural immunity produced in people who have already had covid may last a lifetime. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

2) The Cleveland Clinic--consistently regarded as one of the top hospital systems in the United States and in the world--recently shared a study of 52,238 patients showing zero incremental benefit from the jab to the previously infected, recommending that "people who’ve had COVID-19 don’t need to get vaccinated." https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-study-determines-...

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