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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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