The United States has now experienced its first death similar to the Omicron variant: a reinfection with the Covid-19 coronavirus in a man vaccinated against Covid-19.
According to a report from Harris County Public Health (HCPH), the man was between 50 and 60 years old. He had underlying physical conditions that put him at a heightened threat of severe COVID-19. It is not known why the man had not been vaccinated. or if you believe your previous infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) provided you with sufficient protection. However, the “natural immunity” he might have had during the first infection was supposedly not enough to defend himself. Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 the moment of time.
Naturally, this case makes you wonder what coverage “herbal immunity” will offer, even as opposed to the Omicron variant. The Omicron variant is a bit like Benedict Cumberbatch like Khan in the Star Trek films, very different from its predecessors. Kyle Griffin, leader of the maker of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” had one or several words for those touting herbal immunity instead of covid-19 vaccination:
This death in Harris County, Texas, will in fact not be the last and only Omicron-related death in the United States. The Omicron variant spread in the United States faster than a red flag meme. It is not yet known whether the Omicron variant is so likely or less likely to cause severe Covid-19 compared to other editions of the virus. It’s only been about a month since Omicron first detected it in South Africa. This did not leave enough time to conduct enough adequate studies to better perceive the prospective virulence of this new edition of the virus.
However, the virus has already shown that it is soft and tender and that it can kill. As I covered for Forbes on December 18, the UK. The Health Security Agency had reported seven Omicron-related deaths as of Dec. 16. That number doubled to 14 two days later, on Dec. 18, according to a Dec. 20 report from the U. K. ‘s Health Safety Agency.
Now, the word “natural” in “natural immunity” may give the impression that this is a favorable thing. But “natural” isn’t always better. For example, would you rather have “natural” poop in your ear or fake poop?In the case of Covid-19, other people have used “natural immunity” to describe the immune coverage that is intended to be obtained after recovering from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, assuming you are the infection.
However, such herbal immunity can be as reliable as an alpaca or a gorilla from a nightclub. It’s unclear what percentage of those with Covid-19 end up having good enough immune coverage and how long this coverage might last. For example, as I covered earlier for Forbes, one study found that 36% of those who emanate from SARS-CoV-2 did not even develop antibodies. If you were told that there is a 36% chance that you will be dressed in pants in public now, you would probably be a little worried. Also, in August, I covered for Forbes how one study found that other unvaccinated people were more than twice as likely to be reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 as vaccinated people. .
These findings have not stopped some on social media from claiming that the Omicron variant proves that “natural immunity” is more effective than vaccination against covid-19. For example, there was the following tweet from an unnamed Twitter account:
From Twitter
In general, getting a medical recommendation from an unnamed social media account is like getting a medical recommendation of graffiti in the bathroom. Take any “statistic” presented through an unnamed social media account with a Justin Bieber lunch box filled with salt, especially when the account doesn’t obviously link the source of the stat.
Anyway, let’s just say you have to make do with this statistic presented through this nameless account: that most Omicron cases have been vaccinated in other people. This does not necessarily mean that other vaccinated people are more likely to become inflamed with Omicron. variant than other unvaccinated people. It would be like saying that other people who wear clothes in public are more likely to become inflamed than other people who pass naturally. With more than 73% of the U. S. population. Having gained at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, the virus is more likely to locate who has been vaccinated than who has not. This is how probabilities work.
Some proponents of “natural immunity” pointed out that vaccine-induced immunity would not protect the Omicron variant or previous editions of the virus. For example, as Robert Hart described for Forbes on December 14, an initial study found that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine had 70% protection against hospitalization, but only 33% protection against Covid-19 coronavirus infection. This reduction in protection is probably due to the fact that the Omicron variant is from the past SARS-CoV-2 as Benedict Cumberbatch was for Ricardo Montalbán in the Star Trek films: not so recognizable. Compared to the original SARS-CoV-2 edition, the Omicron variant has more than 50 mutations and more than 30 affecting the spike protein.
Several layers of Covid-19 precautions, adding dressing in a face mask in public, can help Array. Texas. (Photo via Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Hmm, you know the saying, “people living in greenhouses shouldn’t throw stones?”Well, pointing out the limitations of the Covid-19 vaccine while trying to promote “natural immunity” would be like aggressively throwing a ball into a wall in a very close diversity and then bouncing the ball directly in your face. If the Omicron variant can escape vaccine-induced immunity to some extent, what do you think it can also do with “natural immunity,” which would possibly be more variable and weaker initially?Order this as “you have no idea. “
The spread of the Omicron variant only offers more reasons to get vaccinated if you have already been fully vaccinated and to get fully vaccinated if you are not already. As Lisa Kim covered for Forbes, studies have recommended that a booster shot of Covid-19 mRNA can simply delay your coverage against symptomatic Covid-19 by up to more than 70%. Similarly, getting vaccinated after recovering from Covid-19 will likely offer you much greater coverage against the Omicron variant than relying only on the “natural immunity” you may have. After all, if you need coverage, is it better to wear more clothes than to go natural?