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Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by dragontamer on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:00PM (#28473311)
> Natural immunity doesn’t only last 6 months. Where did you get that?

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/delta-raises-covid...

You got 180 days before natural immunity wanes and Delta poses a risk of reinfection.

Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by rajin444 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:10PM (#28473440)
That's looking at relative risk not overall. It's not saying you lose immunity after 180 days.
Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by dragontamer on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:13PM (#28473472)
Natural immunity wanes enough to cause a "2nd surge" in cities that were 75%ish infected, such as Araraquara city, Brazil, and Manaus, Brazil.

I can agree with you that the 180-days thing is just an estimate from one study. Further studies are needed to narrow down the exact time when natural immunity wanes. But its a good "first guess" at the phenomenon, and should be within a magnitude of the truth.

From what we've seen around the world, COVID19 (or at least its variants, like Gamma/P.1 or Delta/B.1.617) is more than willing to reinfect populations in less than a year.

Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers by disgruntledphd2 on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:22AM (#28479982)
The Manaus study used a convenience sample, meaning that you cannot infer population rates from it.

Who would have thought that reading the abstract of a paper could be a super power?