Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection

Re:Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an... by contravariant on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:18PM (#28321712)

Well the obvious problems with it is that it's hard to tell you've been infected and you need to quarantine for the entire duration until you are sure you've been infected and have recovered.

Apart from that, if the protection from a vaccine is temporary then there's no reason to believe your immune system will learn anything from an infection it can already handle. That part of the immune response takes a while and may never succeed if the virus is long gone before then.

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Re:Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an... by arisAlexis on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:44AM (#28324657)

Who knows if you getbDelta while vaccinated and you crush it shortly afternentry if your immune system makes any changes or not.. this requires an immunologist to answer.

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Re:Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an... by randomopining on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:12PM (#28323191)

The whole point of my strategy would be that perhaps Delta is a precursor to a, let's say, Zeta variant that has almost complete evasion to the vaccine. Let's say in January or something.

So what you're doing is giving your body a high chance to crush the Delta and gain some cross-immunity towards the future evasive variant.

Whereas if you just relied on the vaccine, it might not even work well in January.

Obviously this is just conjecture, but I think a real possibility.

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