Some Workers Want Covid-19 Recovery Accepted as Evidence of Immunity

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Some workers opposed to vaccine mandates on the job are increasingly pointing to the same reason for their objection: They already had Covid-19.

Nurses, factory workers and professional athletes are among employees asking that immunity from prior Covid-19 infection be recognized alongside vaccination as sufficient protection against the virus.

Kasie Pasquantonio, a 51-year-old nurse at a large teaching hospital in Boston, doesn’t want to get vaccinated because she fears potential long-term side effects of the vaccine. She said she was infected with Covid-19 in December after exposure to an ICU patient.

Ms. Pasquantonio said blood samples she has provided to two clinical studies of immunity among healthcare workers have shown a high level of circulating antibodies. She said she was denied a medical exemption to her employer’s vaccine mandate and faces firing if she doesn’t get vaccinated by early November.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/some-workers-want-covid-19-recovery-accepted-as-evidence-of-immunity/ar-AAPHpmd

Natural immunity is good. Getting vaccinated after being sick with COVID-19 is better.

Many people have caught COVID-19 over the past 20 months, despite their best efforts, or because they didn't take enough precautions against the coronavirus.

Data is just starting to emerge about how protected they may be against another infection.

As with most illnesses, contracting COVID-19 provides immune "memory" that helps protect against a future infection. But it's still unclear how sick a person has to get with COVID-19 to develop enough immune memory to be protective and for how long. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends even people who have had COVID-19 get vaccinated against it.

A growing body of research suggests infection plus vaccination provides the strongest protection against a wide range of variants, possibly for a long time.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/natural-immunity-is-good-getting-vaccinated-after-being-sick-with-covid-19-is-better/ar-AAPGOC4

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. I think it's a somewhat valid argument if you can prove that your antibody levels are similar

to what one gets from the vaccine, which is absolutely possible.

Just because I think that, though, doesn't mean I don't also think you're dumb to not just get the vaccine, ESPECIALLY if you're in health care, because all evidence shows it's nothing but a win/win situation.

The main problem with what these people like to call 'natural immunity', i.e. that which comes from exposure to the live virus is exactly what the OP says ...

"But it's still unclear how sick a person has to get with COVID-19 to develop enough immune memory to be protective and for how long"

E.G. catching C19 totally CAN work like getting the vaccine, but it introduces a much greater uncertainty level. With a vaccine we know you got X milligrams of the inactive virus cells, and it's effect on the immune system of this quantity ... is well studied.