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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by scotty79 on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:17AM (#27929057)
Becoming infected also doesn't completely protect you from becoming infected again, 1% of patients who had severe covid get infected again in just 3.5 months. [0]

So even if vaccines don't prevent the transmission or protect from infection worse than being severely infected then you might treat them just as a way of making you survive your first infection so that first infection can protect you better from further infections. If we didn't have or use vaccines we'd eventually end up in the same place with nearly all people eventually contracting covid at least once, just with a little more damage.

Research on covid is not done. We need therapies for acute covid. We need a way to treat and prevent long covid.

[0] https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/study-covid-19-reinfectio...

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by pigeonhole123 on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:29AM (#27929140)
I find it curious that the rate of reinfection from that study coincides exactly with the false positive rate of the test
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by scotty79 on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:08AM (#27929395)
Some of the reinfected people died. You don't die from false positive result on two tests. It's not stated in the article buy you can safely assume that some of the reinfected had symptoms other than death as well.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by pigeonhole123 on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:01AM (#27931430)
They presumably didn’t die from their first detected infection which may be a false positive. And I guess by “some” you mean a small subset. Other sources are saying around 30 confirmed reinfections worldwide. Which is correct?
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by scotty79 on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:24PM (#27933282)
Definitely not the ones with number 30 in the whole world.

Brazillian variant of vovid reinfects one in 6 people previously infected with earlier variant: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1353

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