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0 pointsthrowaway2011035y ago0 comments

Simply tell people, "if you've had COVID, don't get the vaccine" or maybe "go to the end of the line"

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m-ee5y ago

That’s terrible messaging given that reinfection is rare but possible and occasionally deadly. We want everyone to take it.

throwaway201103OP5y ago

Hard to imagine that infection and recovery from the actual virus confers less immunity than the vaccine, but even without knowing that, it seems reasonable that people who have already recovered should be a lower priority for vaccination than more at-risk groups.

m-ee5y ago

It’s not hard to imagine, it’s a well observed phenomenon in other diseases like HPV. Antibody titers were higher for the mRNA covid vaccines than convalescent plasma if I remember right.

Most people probably are at lower risk, but some people are dying from reinfection. They certainly weren’t.

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m-ee5y ago

That’s terrible messaging given that reinfection is rare but possible and occasionally deadly. We want everyone to take it.

throwaway201103OP5y ago

m-ee5y ago

It’s not hard to imagine, it’s a well observed phenomenon in other diseases like HPV. Antibody titers were higher for the mRNA covid vaccines than convalescent plasma if I remember right.

Most people probably are at lower risk, but some people are dying from reinfection. They certainly weren’t.

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