Thu Oct 21, 2021 – 5:04 pm EDTThu Oct 21, 2021 – 5:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A new study from the Yale School of Public Health has reaffirmed that natural immunity from prior COVID-19 infection lasts far longer than immunity from the currently-available COVID-19 vaccines, though mainstream media outlets are representing its findings differently.
The Yale Daily News reports that the study, led by biostatistician Jeffrey Townsend, found that an unvaccinated person’s risk of reinfection “is about five percent at three months after the initial infection,” and rises to 50 percent after 17 months. Under a model that assumes the entire population has either been previously infected or vaccinated, “unvaccinated individuals should expect to be reinfected with COVID-19 every 16 to 17 months on average.”
The authors cautioned that their study relied on modeling based on data from past coronaviruses, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and SARS, because COVID-19 has not circulated long enough to determine a rate of reinfection with certainty. Still, the authors contend that their findings show that natural immunity is not a substitute for vaccination.
“In particular, our estimate argues strongly against the claim that a long-standing resolution of the epidemic could
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