CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Researchers at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, an academic hospital consistently ranking among America’s finest medical institutions, have published a study on the need for previously COVID-infected individuals to receive a vaccine to be immune to COVID-19, finding that “[i]ndividuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination.”
In evaluating the necessity of vaccinating those who previously contracted and have since recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection, the clinic examined over 52,000 employees of the Cleveland Clinic Health System from the day that COVID vaccines began being administered on December 16, 2020.
Over the next five months the study followed developments in COVID infection within the group, categorizing the participants into four major subsets: previously infected individuals who were vaccinated, previously infected individuals who were not vaccinated, previously uninfected individuals who received the vaccine, and previously uninfected individuals who did not receive the vaccine.
Of the large overall sample size, around 5 percent, or 2,579 individuals, were considered previously infected (returning a positive PCR test for COVID-19 at least 42 days before the study commenced), slightly more than half of whom, 1,359, did not receive a COVID vaccine before the end of
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