Immune Systems Are like Our Fingerprints
Consensus View If asked, many scientists would probably agree with the statement ‘ Natural infection gives better immunity than vaccination ’. Indeed, if one survives the infection, there are certainly many pathogens for which natural infection induces stronger immune responses and more long-lived immunity than does vaccination. In a study from Austria, [6] it had found that—Protection against SARS‐CoV‐2 after natural infection is comparable with the highest available estimates on vaccine efficacies. Former SARS patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 appear able to fend off all variants of SARS-CoV-2 in circulation, as well as ones that may soon emerge, a new study suggests [8] Their formidable antibodies may even protect against coronaviruses in other species that have yet to make the jump into humans—and may hold clues to how to make a so-called pancoronavirus vaccine that could forestall future outbreaks. Based on @EricTopol (a physician-sc...