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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by krona on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:08PM (#28278016)
The vaccine will prime your immunity to one (important) protein. Natural infection could prime your immunity to up to 29 proteins. I'm not sure 'robustness' right word in the context of rapidly evolving variants.
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by wang_li on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:35PM (#28278438)
According to data from Israel, immunity from having gotten the infection is much better at stopping the delta variant by a factor of around 7x.

Other research shows that natural immunity is long lasting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by shkkmo on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:01PM (#28279644)
That's not what that study shows.
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by wang_li on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:53PM (#28281085)
The link is for the second sentence. To quote from the abstract:

> Overall, our results indicate that mild infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune memory in humans.

As far as the reports from Israel:

> By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by shkkmo on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:06AM (#28284993)
> The link is for the second sentence.

Gotcha, that was not at all clear from your comment. Thanks for providing a citation for the other claims, I'll take a look at it.

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