Categories for Immunity and Vaccines
Natural Immunity to One Variant Protects Against Severe Disease From Another
A recent study from Qatar shows that people who acquired natural immunity to the original Wuhan strain had excellent protection against severe disease from later variants, some of which were more virulent.
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Should the State Punish People for Their Health Choices?
Macron wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated because they place a burden on the health service. But obese people place a burden on the health service too. Will Macron's next policy be "pissing off" the obese?
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Most Democrats Wrongly Believe That Vaccines Provide More Protection Than Natural Immunity
We already know that people overestimate the risks of Covid. A new survey has found that a sizeable majority of Democrats wrongly believe the vaccines protect better against infection than natural immunity.
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture…
We've conjured up a new conspiracy theory at the Daily Sceptic: What if the U.K. Government engineered Omicron as a safe variant that would cause only mild disease and then confer immunity and released it into the wild?
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Misreading Mill: On Liberty and Vaccination
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by two professors at King's College London disputing the claim, often made by vaccine enthusiasts, that J.S. Mill would have supported mandatory vaccinations.
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Indian Researchers Find that Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection than the AstraZeneca Vaccine
A fourth study has found that natural immunity protects better against infection than the vaccines. Indian researchers estimated the protective effect of natural immunity to be 86%; vaccine effectiveness was only 32%.
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Vaccine Escape Mutations “Will Become a Major Mechanism of Transmission”, Say Researchers
Back in January, Sir Patrick Vallance said, "The more you vaccinate, the more you put evolutionary pressure on the virus." A recent paper argues that mass vaccination has selected for vaccine escape mutations.
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Can You Have Too Many Vaccinations?
Can you have too many vaccinations? An ex-academic scientist tackles this question. He argues that, given the risks of post-vaccination autoimmune response, it's foolhardy to vaccinate those who've already had Covid.
Read moreMeasuring Vaccine Usefulness Without Reference to Unvaccinated Case Rates
by Dr. R.J. Booth The apparent dwindling of Covid vaccines’ effectiveness at preventing infection has been disappointing, given that vaccines...
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Danish Study Confirms That Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection Than the Vaccines
Yet another study has found that natural immunity provides better protection against infection than the vaccines, and that vaccine effectiveness against infection wanes rapidly, beginning a few weeks after vaccination.
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