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haxxiy on 02 September 2021
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SvennoJ said:

In another analysis, the researchers compared more than 14,000 people who had a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and were still unvaccinated with an equivalent number of previously infected people who received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The team found that the unvaccinated group was twice as likely to be reinfected as the singly vaccinated.

Vaccination still helps if already infected!


And this is what happens if you bank on natural immunity to get it over with

About 204,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for COVID-19 in the week ending Aug. 26, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported. The number of cases in children has risen five-fold since the week ending July 22, when 38,000 cases were diagnosed.

“Look what’s happening in the southern U.S., it’s an absolute disaster,” Smart said. “Their ICUs are full of dying children with COVID-19 because they let COVID run completely out of control.

“I really do hope that’s not our situation because we do have much higher vaccination rates,” Smart said. “But if Delta starts running through our pediatric population we will start to see issues - because if a lot of kids get infected there will be children who are incredibly ill. That’s just a numbers game.

To be fair, "twice as likely to be reinfected" can be the difference between 90% and 95% risk reduction.

On the other hand, that 95% is incredibly powerful. It's literally off the ELISA charts when you try to measure it, neutralizing not only any SARS-CoV-2 variant but also other Sarbecoviruses. Hopefully the same goes when the opposite happens and someone has a symptomatic breakthrough infection.

The whole kid Covid debate is also rather strange. There have been ~ 360 deaths in the under 18 age group in the US since the beginning of the pandemic - that's less than the deaths from influenza in most years in the past decade, and less than a third of those who died in the 2009 pandemic in that age group. 

"ICUs full of children dying from Covid-19" seems rather alarmistic and inaccurate in face of that data, unless they use the same expression to describe influenza in... well, just about every winter in a pediatric ward, really.