Can We Get Our Jobs Back?
Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Associate Professor
CDC finally tells us what we already knew. Why am I not surprised.
So in other words the science has not changed, the CDC has just decided to acknowledge it now. We should have been focusing on treatment the whole time.
So, how do we compensate and get the jobs back for all those that got covid, served our community and then got fired for not following draconian mandates?
We should not force COVID vaccines on anyone when the evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity is equal to or more robust and superior to existing vaccines. Instead, we should respect the right of the bodily integrity of individuals to decide for themselves.
Here is the link to the CDC.
The key contribution is the following chart, which illustrates the effectiveness of the vaccine (for the duration of the study) and plots that against the effectiveness of natural immunity with and without the vaccine.
What it reveals is a point that has been strangely disputed or at least too often left unacknowledged: the power of natural immunity to serve as protection against severe outcomes from reinfection.
This reality bears strongly on the question of vaccine mandates.
