Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by logicchains on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:55AM (#28535403)

It does have consequences in some, e.g. teenagers are more likely to be hospitalised for a side effect of the vax than they are to be hospitalised for covid: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by boplicity on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:38PM (#28541276)

> teenagers are more likely to be hospitalised for a side effect of the vax than they are to be hospitalised for covid

You're omitting a very important fact. The risk of hospitaliztion listed in the article is not based on the percentage of teenagers who had COVID; it is based on the percentage who might get COVID over the next 120 days. That's a very different number.

If things continue as they are, then almost everyone will either get COVID or get vaccinated (or both). It only makes sense to compare the risks based on actually getting COVID, vs. getting vaccinated.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by snovv_crash on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:24AM (#28535868)

Could you give me both of those numbers as a percentage, and then compare it to the risk of, oh, let's say driving a car 100 miles in an urban area?

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