Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
by jessriedel on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:16AM
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Isn't the reason a vaccinated person's immune system might not specialize to wild covid as much during infection as an unvaccinated person's that the disease in the former is shorter lived? Like, the way the never-vaccinated person would get slightly lower risk in the future is by taking a much larger risk now. You're still way better off with the vaccine.
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Re:Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
by monopoledance on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:33PM
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Also selecting for survivors.
In the group of vaccinated survivors there will be more folks who would have died from infection without the vaccine, because of insufficient immune response.
People who survived an infection without prior vaccination are more likely to have a good immune response to the disease.