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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by michaelmrose on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:30PM (#30076774)
Instead of reading a reporter from CBS with a limited education it might be better to read the work of scientists

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.13.22269243v...

> Limited cross-variant immunity after infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant without vaccination

Such natural immunity is both safer and more effectively obtained not as an alternative to the vaccine but in addition to it.

There is a real risk of either a second act for delta or a new variant either downstream from omicron but different enough or downstream from delta or both.

Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by peteradio on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:21PM (#30080070)
I no longer trust the applicability of sera studies. Publicized sera studies have not accurately forecast severe outcome statistics.