A recent study shows natural immunity is the best protection against COVID-19. The research analyzes dozens of studies and concludes it offers better protection than all COVID-19 vaccines. This applies to reinfection, symptomatic infections, and severe disease from all COVID-19 variants.
A new study in the Lancet medical journal concludes that natural immunity from a COVID-19 infection confers strong protection against reinfection and illness. NTD spoke to a natural medicine doctor who says this shouldn’t be big news. But different health agencies, including in France, during the pandemic, changed their view on natural immunity.
Post-infection immunity is similar or even superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study. Post-infection protection—known widely as natural immunity—was strong and remained significant over time, researchers found. Against the Wuhan, Alpha, and Delta variants, the protection against re-infection was 85 percent at four weeks, 78 percent at 40 weeks, […]
An analysis of COVID-19 transmission by researchers at the University of California–San Francisco (UCSF) found that both natural immunity from prior infection and COVID-19 vaccines helped to reduce the likelihood of transmission. UCSF researchers studied COVID-19 infection data from all 35 adult prison facilities in California’s state prison system and looked at transmission between people […]
Around a week ago, the FDA released its second trove of documents related to its authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. And within them, there are three interesting points that I believe are worth discussing. The first has to do with the fact that according to the data, natural immunity proved to be as effective as […]
Right now, cities across the United States are still in the process of implementing vaccine mandates. And so, we’re seeing cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Boston firing teachers, letting go of city workers, and even terminating police officers. However, a new study from the Cleveland Clinic shows that natural immunity is fairly robust […]
People who recovered from COVID-19 were well protected against severe COVID-19, even after the Omicron virus variant became dominant, according to a new study. The people, benefiting from protection known as natural immunity, had approximately 88 percent protection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 in cases caused by Omicron, according to researchers in Qatar. That […]
NTD was at the Lincoln Memorial where a rally against vaccine mandates was taking place. NTD spoke with two prominent doctors who have been quite vocal about stopping what they say are unilateral mandates—cardiologist and heart specialist Dr. Peter McCullough and emergency room physician Dr. Pierre Kory.
The CDC just published a new study that found, despite the fact that it’s almost never talked about in public, the protection from natural immunity was better than the protection from the COVID-19 vaccines in shielding people against the Delta variant of the virus. Meanwhile, I had the opportunity to speak with Josh Hammer—who is […]
Protection from prior COVID-19 infection was better than the protection from COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta virus variant, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Researchers analyzed health records from California and New York that were entered between May 30 and Nov. 20, 2021. They separated COVID-19 […]
Many institutions and jurisdictions have imposed vaccine mandates to protect public health. Though some have challenged the mandates saying they don’t offer an option to claim natural immunity instead of getting the vaccine. NTD spoke to former professor Aaron Kheriaty who served as the director of the medical ethics program at the University of California […]
America’s top health agency gives the fully vaccinated status only to people who’ve gotten the shot. But the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is deviating from that guideline by giving that same status to the unvaccinated—if they’ve been infected with COVID-19.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA’s) COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group on Jan. 7 released new guidance for winter sports and updated its definition of “fully vaccinated” to account for vaccinations, boosters, and other natural immunity factors. “For purposes of the winter guidelines, the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group has developed a definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ that considers both […]
Health experts are discussing the world emerging from the pandemic—with the U.K. being one of the first countries to see Covid-19 become part of life like the common cold. The driving factors behind the U.K. leading this charge are the accelerated vaccination campaign and natural immunity from many Brits already having had Covid-19.
Last week, a new study came out of Israel. It was a fairly large study, looking at about two-thirds of the entire population of the country. It found that people with natural immunity were about six times less likely to get infected with COVID-19 than people who were exclusively vaccinated. And this is only the […]
Why has the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new, heavily-mutated coronavirus variant Omicron a “variant of concern?” How is it that the next-in-line letters of the Greek alphabet, Nu and Xi, were skipped in the naming of this strain? Observing the different responses around the world to Omicron triggers recollection of the “early days” […]
According to a new study that came out of Qatar and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, those who have already suffered from COVID-19, and therefore have natural immunity, are very well protected against future infections. In fact, this study found that among the people who already had COVID-19, only 0.4 percent […]
After a year of debate on the topic of natural immunity, there has been a new development. According to a letter from the CDC—which came as a response to a freedom of information request—the CDC admits to having no records of anyone in the entire country who got COVID-19, recovered, got reinfected, and then spread […]
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says it has no record of people who are naturally immune transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19. The federal health agency was asked during the fall by a lawyer on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network for documents “reflecting any documented case of an individual who: (1) never […]
