You left out how rare this is. While raw data is difficult to come by, one state that does report this stat is North Carolina.MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:03 amAs for the whole "natural immunity" debate, there are people who have contracted COVID multiple times, and in some instances, the most recent case is the worst.
So since the beginning of the pandemic (now basically 19 months), in the state of North Carolina, 10,812 people out of 1.3 million got re-infected. That is a rate of 1 in 120, or 0.83 percent.Of the more than 1.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases as of Sept. 20 in North Carolina, 10,812 were reinfections, according to DHHS. The majority of those reinfections took place since late July, when the more contagious delta variant of the virus caused a spike in cases nationwide. The state doesn’t report how many reinfected people became sick enough to end up in a hospital, but it says 94 of them died of the disease. Overall, 16,719 people have died of COVID-19 in North Carolina as of Monday.
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And then looking at deaths, 94 of 16,719 deaths were people who got reinfected. That is 1 in 178.
To to be clear, when comparing natural immunity to vaccinated immunity, people with natural immunity are 120x less likely to get Covid than people who haven't had it before, and are 178x less likely to die from it (and the fact that the 178 is higher than the 120 means that even if you do get re-infected, your mortality rate is actually 48% LOWER). And this covers an entire 19-month span. And as a side note, these odds assume that roughly 1/2 the population has natural immunity (ie, for accurate comparisons, the group size for each must be roughly equal). Assuming that antibody studies done earlier this year are accurate, it is likely that more than 50% of the population has natural immunity, which would make these 120x and 178x numbers proportionately higher depending on how much higher than 50% that real number is.
I'm sorry, but these numbers blow vaccinated immunity numbers right out of the water, by orders of magnitude.