by Daniel Brouse
August 30, 2021
To date, there is zero (0) evidence that contracting the original strain of COVID gives you any immunity to re-infection — natural immunity. On the other hand, there are a multitude of examples of re-infection.
Natural immunity to the original strain lasts on average from 60 days to 6 months; however, there does not appear to be any natural immunity to the variants.
In India’s recent wave, 1 in 4 Delta cases were re-infections. “Antibodies against Sars-CoV-2 — the virus that causes Covid-19 — were found in about 27% of the 91 participants at a time when the second wave was raging in the country, researchers at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, National Centre for Disease Control and the Cambridge University, said.” — Hindustan Times
“During the Novavax vaccine trials in South Africa, the study found an overall primary efficacy of 49.4% in 4,400 participants, meaning about half of the patients vaccinated and later infected did not experience symptoms. Genomic analyses revealed that about a third of the 4,400 were previously positive for infection, meaning the South African variant was then and is now capable of reinfection, evading neutralizing antibodies in a similar capacity to the Brazilian variant.”
“The study also showed that prior infection with an earlier version of the virus did not reduce the risk of COVID-19 caused by the South African variant among people who got placebo shots.” — Reuters
Another variant (C.1.2) related to the original South Africa variant (C.1) was discovered in South Africa, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, England, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland. A study by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) in South Africa found the variant could be more transmissible and evade protection provided by vaccines and prior infection.
“Among Kentucky residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, vaccination status of those reinfected during May–June 2021 was compared with that of residents who were not reinfected. In this case-control study, being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated.” — CDC
“Our case series shows that reinfection with different strains is possible, and some cases may experience more severe infections with the second episode. The findings also suggest that COVID-19 may continue to circulate even after achieving herd immunity through natural infection or vaccination, suggesting the need for longer-term transmission mitigation efforts.” — Journal of Investigative Medicine
Vaccines do not appear to be much more effective against the Delta variant than natural immunity through infection. The increase of breakthrough cases has been increasing in lock-step with the increase spread of the Delta variant. “Fewer than 10% of new coronavirus infections occurred in fully vaccinated people in the weeks before June, but the rate increased this summer. In the first four weeks of August, roughly 30% of infections were in fully vaccinated individuals.” — The Star Tribune
A study by the CDC found vaccine efficacy dropped from roughly 90% to 66% as the Delta variant emerged. “This report updates vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates including all COVID-19 vaccines available through August 14, 2021, and examines whether VE differs for adults with increasing time since completion of all recommended vaccine doses.” — CDC
Another CDC study that compared natural immunity to vaccination has found — “Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection.”
CONCLUSION PART I
There is a need for longer-term transmission mitigation efforts. Because reinfection is likely, vaccines efficacy is not high enough, and new variants are emerging, herd immunity is not achievable. Humans can not learn to live with the virus. Mitigation efforts must be made to stop community spread.
CONCLUSION PART II
COVID causes an immune dysfunction. When a person become infected, the SARS-CoV-2 virus alters your genes in order to infect you. “We identified EP300, MOV10, RELA, and TRIM25 as top candidates, and more than 60 additional proteins involved in the epigenetic response during viral infection that has therapeutic potential.” — Nature
When a person recovers from the virus, they are left with multiple gene alterations to there immune system. It is impossible for natural immunity to be feasible in an individual with an immune system that is compromised by a COVID-19 infection.
COVID survivors are left with a severe NAD+ deficiency, and an upregulation of IDO (which suppresses your T and NK cells.) Short term this makes your immune system dysfunctional. This means your antibodies can’t function properly and have little to no memory. Long term it makes you more likely to have heart, blood, respiratory, and neurological disorders. You are at high risk of developing dementia. In addition, you have reduced P53 genes (tumor suppression genes) putting you at higher risk of cancer. — The Membrane Domain
I strongly advise against contracting COVID.
OMICRON UPDATE
December 4, 2021
A study out of South Africa, “Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of the Omicron variant in South Africa,” found that individuals who recently recovered from the Delta variant were afforded little to no protection from the Omicron variant. “Population-level evidence suggests that the Omicron variant is associated with substantial ability to evade immunity from prior infection. This finding has important implications for public health planning, particularly in countries like South Africa with high rates of immunity from prior infection.”
As stated above, everybody is advised to:
* speak to your doctor
* get vaccinated
* wear an N95 mask
* stay socially distanced
UPDATE June 2022: No Immune Boost From Omicron
“If you were infected during the first wave, then you can’t boost your immune response if you have an Omicron infection,” said Prof Rosemary Boyton, of Imperial College London, a co-author of the study. “When Omicron started flying around the country, people kept saying that’s OK, that will improve people’s immunity,” said Boyton. “What we’re saying is it’s not a good booster of immunity.”
“It’s actually worse than that, because the adaptations that the spike [protein] has now are actually inducing a kind of regulation or shutdown of immune response,” Prof Danny Altmann, another author of the study, adding that while the study looked at responses to the BA.1, similar findings were likely for other subvariants of Omicron.
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