Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study
BY TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, JUL 11, 2022 - 08:05 AM Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
“Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3 percent … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning. Similar results were found in sub-group analyses for those ≥50 years of age,” Dr. Laith Abu-Raddad, with Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, and colleagues said after studying long-term natural immunity in unvaccinated people.
That percentage is higher than the protection from COVID-19 vaccines, according to other studies and real-world data.
Swedish researchers, for instance, found in May that two doses of a vaccine were just 54 percent effective against the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
South African scientists, meanwhile, found the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines peaked at 88 percent, and quickly dropped to 70 percent or lower.
The Qatar group found natural immunity for over 14 months after a person’s first infection “remains very strong, with no evidence for waning, irrespective of variant.”
The study was published ahead of peer review on the website medRxiv.
Few researchers have studied natural immunity long-term among unvaccinated persons, in part because many of the people have eventually received a COVID-19 vaccine [and there is no big money flowing from the huge medical bureaucracies chasing the actual science].
The vaccines, meanwhile, have waned against both infection and severe illness over time, triggering recommendations for booster doses, with some Americans even getting five doses within 10 months.
I don't understand. Why doesn't the dementia patient make the chi com crud go away like he promised us?
Still would like to know what that plan was. Joe, Kamala, Cuomo and Gavin were all discounting vaccines during the campaign, so they must have had a plan that didn't have vaccines at the center of it right?
I don't understand. Why doesn't the dementia patient make the chi com crud go away like he promised us?
Still would like to know what that plan was. Joe, Kamala, Cuomo and Gavin were all discounting vaccines during the campaign, so they must have had a plan that didn't have vaccines at the center of it right?
Actually, I think they bought the Pfizer, FDA, Fow Chee kool-aid on the vaccines, but didn't want to give Trump any credit before the election in November 2020 so it was dump on the Trump vaxx. They were all in the front row in December when the vaccinations started rolling out.
The plan was to make everyone get vaxxed and then take full credit for the vaxx and the implementation. Then take credit for the "largest increase in the US economy in history" after the decimated economy started to grow back. No science, just party before actual science and country.
Just a reminder that Newsom shut down the Cali public schools and demanded masking after they re-opened. DeSantis did not. The good news for leftards is that the already high illiteracy rate in Latin America and the rest of the world's sh*t holes has skyrocked. Makes it easier for the American left to "help" them fill out their US presidential ballots. Shooting for 91 million "votes".
THE ECONOMIST HAS AN “UNEXPECTEDLY” MOMENT: Covid learning loss has been a global disaster.
When covid-19 first began to spread around the world, pausing normal lessons was a forgivable precaution. No one knew how transmissible the virus was in classrooms; how sick youngsters would become; or how likely they would be to infect their grandparents. But disruptions to education lasted long after encouraging answers to these questions emerged.
New data suggest that the damage has been worse than almost anyone expected [emphasis mine — Ed]. Locking kids out of school has prevented many of them from learning how to read properly. Before the pandemic 57% of ten-year-olds in low and middle-income countries could not read a simple story, says the World Bank. That figure may have risen to 70%, it now estimates. The share of ten-year-olds who cannot read in Latin America, probably the worst-affected region, could rocket from around 50% to 80% (see chart 1).
Children who never master the basics will grow up to be less productive and to earn less. McKinsey, a consultancy, estimates that by 2040 education lost to school closures could cause global gdp to be 0.9% lower than it would otherwise have been—an annual loss of $1.6trn. The World Bank thinks the disruption could cost children $21trn in earnings over their lifetimes—a sum equivalent to 17% of global gdp today. That is much more than the $10trn it had estimated in 2020, and also an increase on the $17trn it was predicting last year.
Who on earth could have foreseen this? Flashback: Politico: How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic.
Related:
● Why we must demand that leaders who got COVID wrong admit it and apologize.
—Karol Markowicz, the New York Post, March 6th.
● Speech Therapy Shows the Difficult Tradeoffs of Wearing Masks.
—Atlantic headline, March 2nd.
As Ace of Spades wrote, at the start of a lengthy post on that last headline, “The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from. The early years of development are critical ones. You don’t get those back. These are critical years of development in which children’s brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever. There is no ‘Do Over’ switch on a child’s formative years.”
Sounds like Race, The Throbber, and I were right. Herr Dazzler and JW were on the wrong side of history.
Not only on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of science and economics but rooting for the away team and the teacher unions. Phuck working small businesses and students. Anything to wreck the economy and get Trump defeated. They do it again. Oregon's witch doctors at the Oregon Health Authority are already recommending indoor masking as "cases" go up. The dazzler will want 6-month olds to have a a vaxx card or get denied health care unless its a post birth abortion.
He got the name Herr Dazzler after stating people who disagreed with him on covid vaccines be denied healthcare by the government. By law.
Just a reminder that Newsom shut down the Cali public schools and demanded masking after they re-opened. DeSantis did not. The good news for leftards is that the already high illiteracy rate in Latin America and the rest of the world's sh*t holes has skyrocked. Makes it easier for the American left to "help" them fill out their US presidential ballots. Shooting for 91 million "votes".
THE ECONOMIST HAS AN “UNEXPECTEDLY” MOMENT: Covid learning loss has been a global disaster.
When covid-19 first began to spread around the world, pausing normal lessons was a forgivable precaution. No one knew how transmissible the virus was in classrooms; how sick youngsters would become; or how likely they would be to infect their grandparents. But disruptions to education lasted long after encouraging answers to these questions emerged.
New data suggest that the damage has been worse than almost anyone expected [emphasis mine — Ed]. Locking kids out of school has prevented many of them from learning how to read properly. Before the pandemic 57% of ten-year-olds in low and middle-income countries could not read a simple story, says the World Bank. That figure may have risen to 70%, it now estimates. The share of ten-year-olds who cannot read in Latin America, probably the worst-affected region, could rocket from around 50% to 80% (see chart 1).
Children who never master the basics will grow up to be less productive and to earn less. McKinsey, a consultancy, estimates that by 2040 education lost to school closures could cause global gdp to be 0.9% lower than it would otherwise have been—an annual loss of $1.6trn. The World Bank thinks the disruption could cost children $21trn in earnings over their lifetimes—a sum equivalent to 17% of global gdp today. That is much more than the $10trn it had estimated in 2020, and also an increase on the $17trn it was predicting last year.
Who on earth could have foreseen this? Flashback: Politico: How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic.
Related:
● Why we must demand that leaders who got COVID wrong admit it and apologize.
—Karol Markowicz, the New York Post, March 6th.
● Speech Therapy Shows the Difficult Tradeoffs of Wearing Masks.
—Atlantic headline, March 2nd.
As Ace of Spades wrote, at the start of a lengthy post on that last headline, “The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from. The early years of development are critical ones. You don’t get those back. These are critical years of development in which children’s brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever. There is no ‘Do Over’ switch on a child’s formative years.”
Sounds like Race, The Throbber, and I were right. Herr Dazzler and JW were on the wrong side of history.
Not only on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of science and economics but rooting for the away team and the teacher unions. Phuck working small businesses and students. Anything to wreck the economy and get Trump defeated. They do it again. Oregon's witch doctors at the Oregon Health Authority are already recommending indoor masking as "cases" go up. The dazzler will want 6-month olds to have a a vaxx card or get denied health care unless its a post birth abortion.
He got the name Herr Dazzler after stating people who disagreed with him on covid vaccines be denied healthcare by the government. By law.
He's just doing what's best for the greater good. If the cockroach scum must go then that's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
Oddly enough I feel much the the same way. But then again I'm a proud facist
SO IS GETTING BOOSTED SELFISH BECAUSE IT INCREASES THE RISK TO OTHERS? New study: COVID booster significantly delays end of infection. “A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated (boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not vaccinated at all . . . At five days post-infection, less than 25 percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious, whereas around 70 percent of boosted people were still carrying viable virus particles. For those partially vaccinated, around 50 percent were still contagious at this point. Even more strikingly, at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31 percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus. By contrast, just six percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious at day 10.”
Our teacher unions and fed and state medical bureaucracies strike again. Clearly, all about keeping the kids safe. If only we spent more money, the US could undergo an academic miracle.
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
Our teacher unions and fed and state medical bureaucracies strike again. Clearly, all about keeping the kids safe. If only we spent more money, the US could undergo an academic miracle.
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
But we were told by a certain sativa enraged poaster that it was all just normal teenage angst
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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/natural-immunity-97-percent-effective-against-severe-covid-19-after-14-months-study
Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, JUL 11, 2022 - 08:05 AM Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
“Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3 percent … irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning. Similar results were found in sub-group analyses for those ≥50 years of age,” Dr. Laith Abu-Raddad, with Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, and colleagues said after studying long-term natural immunity in unvaccinated people.
That percentage is higher than the protection from COVID-19 vaccines, according to other studies and real-world data.
Swedish researchers, for instance, found in May that two doses of a vaccine were just 54 percent effective against the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
South African scientists, meanwhile, found the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines peaked at 88 percent, and quickly dropped to 70 percent or lower.
The Qatar group found natural immunity for over 14 months after a person’s first infection “remains very strong, with no evidence for waning, irrespective of variant.”
The study was published ahead of peer review on the website medRxiv.
Few researchers have studied natural immunity long-term among unvaccinated persons, in part because many of the people have eventually received a COVID-19 vaccine [and there is no big money flowing from the huge medical bureaucracies chasing the actual science].
The vaccines, meanwhile, have waned against both infection and severe illness over time, triggering recommendations for booster doses, with some Americans even getting five doses within 10 months.
The plan was to make everyone get vaxxed and then take full credit for the vaxx and the implementation. Then take credit for the "largest increase in the US economy in history" after the decimated economy started to grow back. No science, just party before actual science and country.
Oddly enough I feel much the the same way. But then again I'm a proud facist
They’re quite adept at shiny objects.
https://instapundit.com/
SO IS GETTING BOOSTED SELFISH BECAUSE IT INCREASES THE RISK TO OTHERS? New study: COVID booster significantly delays end of infection. “A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated (boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not vaccinated at all . . . At five days post-infection, less than 25 percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious, whereas around 70 percent of boosted people were still carrying viable virus particles. For those partially vaccinated, around 50 percent were still contagious at this point. Even more strikingly, at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31 percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus. By contrast, just six percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious at day 10.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/school-closures-crushed-our-children.php
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN
Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.