Re:Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
by gambiting on Saturday August 21, 2021 @09:00AM
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>>That's a great environment for the virus to evolve immunity to the vaccine
Again, like the person above you said, it's not that simple. Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics because they can either avoid or start to digest the chemical that would normally be harmful to them. Here it's not the vaccine that's killing the virus - it's your own immune system, and every single one is different. So yeah, maybe in this person's body the immune system didn't learn to recognize the virus and kill it - it means literally nothing for how another person's immune system will behave when they encounter it.
Re:Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?
by leereeves on Saturday August 21, 2021 @09:28AM
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> it means literally nothing for how another person's immune system will behave when they encounter it.
Vaccinations teach everyone's immune system to target the same part of the virus. Since everyone has immunity to the same spike protein, a change in that protein means something to all vaccinated people.
That's only true if the vaccine stops almost all infections, which the COVID vaccines do not.
There's another comment in this thread from someone who's been vaccinated and sick for 9 days. That's a great environment for the virus to evolve immunity to the vaccine. And it's not an uncommon situation.