'Natural Immunity' to COVID-19: Taking Politics Out of Science
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90894
Gandhi: Yes, so you're absolutely right about that. Immunity to natural infection is like something we learned on the first day of medical school, this is not mysterious. That's entirely how the immune system works and so we expected that you would get immunity after natural infection. Now we have incredible data on that, which we can talk about. But it is amazing that immunity became politicized to the degree it did, that people went so far as to say, "Don't consider that you're going to get immunity to natural infection," because of this Great Barrington-John Snow debate that came out, and neither one was correct.
There was probably a middle ground where it is accurate that protecting our elderly, and 40% of our deaths in this country were nursing home residents, was the most important thing we could do. It is correct that immunity develops and that it means a lot, and it is also correct that lockdowns have terrible economic effects on the poor and the young. This has been going on for a long time.
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exactly, all you people thinking the vaccine and natural immunity means we still have to use social distancing and masks are stupid, St. Fauci is lying to you when he states you should avoid restaurants after being inoculated or have natural immunity like so many front line workers have. As I have suggested, if you have the antibodies you should be at the end of the line for a vaccine, not the front and conduct yourself as if you are vaccinated.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90894
Gandhi: Yes, so you're absolutely right about that. Immunity to natural infection is like something we learned on the first day of medical school, this is not mysterious. That's entirely how the immune system works and so we expected that you would get immunity after natural infection. Now we have incredible data on that, which we can talk about. But it is amazing that immunity became politicized to the degree it did, that people went so far as to say, "Don't consider that you're going to get immunity to natural infection," because of this Great Barrington-John Snow debate that came out, and neither one was correct.
There was probably a middle ground where it is accurate that protecting our elderly, and 40% of our deaths in this country were nursing home residents, was the most important thing we could do. It is correct that immunity develops and that it means a lot, and it is also correct that lockdowns have terrible economic effects on the poor and the young. This has been going on for a long time.
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exactly, all you people thinking the vaccine and natural immunity means we still have to use social distancing and masks are stupid, St. Fauci is lying to you when he states you should avoid restaurants after being inoculated or have natural immunity like so many front line workers have. As I have suggested, if you have the antibodies you should be at the end of the line for a vaccine, not the front and conduct yourself as if you are vaccinated.