Fri Jan 21, 2022 – 4:04 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A new study released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges what numerous independent studies have found over the past year: Natural immunity from prior COVID-19 infection provides stronger protection against the virus than the COVID vaccines.
The data from California and New York cases spanning May to November 2021 found that, while the vaccinated had lower rates of first-time infection by a factor of 6.2 in California and 4.5 in New York than the unvaccinated who had never before had COVID, the unvaccinated with natural immunity had infection rates 29 times lower in California and 4.7 times lower in New York. Those who had both vaccination and prior infection had lower rates still.
The report also showed that in California, the naturally-immune were less likely to be hospitalized (0.003%) than the vaccinated (0.007%). New York did not provide hospitalization data.
“These results demonstrate that vaccination protects against COVID-19 and related hospitalization, and that surviving a previous infection protects against a reinfection and related hospitalization,” the CDC said. “Importantly, infection-derived protection was higher after the Delta variant became predominant, a time
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