Yale Epidemiologist Harvey Risch: natural immunity 9/9/21

Key to herd immunity! Looked for better resolution; only the beginning about the study is fuzzy.

“Not only is natural immunity better for the individual, but it is also better for the society. The only way we will get out of this whole COVID pandemic is having a large amount of natural immunity throughout the population. This is only gained by having people at lower risk take the risk of having the infection. And in fact somewhere over 70%, I believe 77% of Americans now have had the infection according to the CDC information. This means that we have a great base for fending off, but it’s not going to happen from #vaccine immunity because vaccine immunity lasts only a few months and it’s too narrow. It doesn’t get all of the variants. The natural immunity from having had mild or asymptomatic COVID is much stronger. And that’s what’s going to fight off the varriants. And these variants are ones that are going to be and do occur in vaccinated people. Not unvaccinated people, but VACCINATED PEOPLE CREATE THE VARIANTS. That’s what has to be fought.”