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The Biggest Mistake ?


The other day while out to lunch with friends, the topic of Covid came up … as it always does. This time the question was “what was the biggest mistake that that Dr. Fauci, the CDC, state politicians, etc made?” John mentioned school closings and the subsequent year of basic non-education for most children. For me that was a very big mistake, but I think that the biggest mistake was not addressing the issue of natural immunity (NI). Not recognizing natural immunity has cost the jobs and the careers of many innocent bystanders, especially in the military, but also in medicine. 

Interestingly, those who had SARS 1, still have antibodies to SARS 1, now twenty years later. [As many of you know, Sars1 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1) is a strain of coronavirus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome, the respiratory illness responsible for the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak.] 

Granted while it is always easier to look at things like NI through a retrospective scope, wouldn’t it have been logical to assume that the same would occur with SARS 2 as occurred with Sars1? At least right from the beginning, the all-knowing Dr. Fauci should have encouraged that natural immunity be studied asap.

A new study published by the New England Journal of Medicine on June 9 found that protection from COVID-19 via natural immunity was superior to that of two doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine after the same amount of time elapsed among uninfected people.

“Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) provides natural immunity against reinfection,” the study states at the outset, adding that recent studies have shown “waning of the immunity provided by” the Pfizer shot.

The article uses the database of the Israeli Ministry of Health from 2021 at a time when the Delta variant was predominant, among people who were previously infected with covid or who had taken the 2019 vaccine.

The following from Dr. Sanjay Verma sums up my feelings on “the biggest mistake”:

“Throughout the pandemic, public health experts have ignored and even disparaged immunity after natural infection, exclusively emphasizing immunity from COVID vaccines. Many people have been unethically forced into unemployment from vaccine mandates that did not accommodate immunity from natural infection. Repeated studies have shown that immunity after COVID infection is comparable or even better than immunity after COVID vaccination.”

Amen !!

With the omicron variant and it’s sub-variants it appears that reinfections are more common, and thus NI from these latest variants may not be as good as it was with the past variants … but also the severity of the illness caused by these new variants is less.

6/18/22

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