{"id":104834,"date":"2022-01-24T18:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=104834"},"modified":"2022-01-24T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T22:33:39","slug":"bombshell-cdc-admits-natural-immunity-superior-to-vaccinated-immunity-alone-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations-deaths-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=104834","title":{"rendered":"

BOMBSHELL! CDC Admits Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccinated Immunity Alone at Preventing Covid Hospitalizations & Deaths<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Kyle Becker<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control has finally admitted that natural immunity from prior infection\u00a0exists<\/em>. But it\u2019s even worse than that for the Covid narrative: The CDC admits that natural immunity from prior infections is superior to vaccinated immunity alone.<\/p>\n

The CDC broke its silence on\u00a0natural immunity<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday. It released a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0called \u201cCOVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations by COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis \u2014 California and New York, May\u2013November 2021.\u201d The findings were\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0by Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDuring America\u2019s last surge of the coronavirus driven by the Delta variant, people who were unvaccinated but survived Covid were better protected than those who were vaccinated and not previously infected,\u201d AFP noted about the new study.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative strengths of natural versus vaccine-acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2, but comes this time with the imprimatur of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),\u201d AFP added.<\/p>\n

The study itself is heavily parsed and argues that vaccination is still the best strategy to prevent Covid hospitalizations and deaths. That may be true \u2014 but\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0for people who don\u2019t have natural immunity from prior infections.<\/p>\n

During May\u2013November 2021, case and hospitalization rates were highest among persons who were unvaccinated without a previous diagnosis. Before Delta became the predominant variant in June, case rates were higher among persons who survived a previous infection than persons who were vaccinated alone. By early October, persons who survived a previous infection had lower case rates than persons who were vaccinated alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The CDC unsurprisingly urged all Americans to get vaccinated, regardless of prior infections. This is consistent with the agency\u2019s earlier positions.<\/p>\n

Although the epidemiology of COVID-19 might change as new variants emerge, vaccination remains the safest strategy for averting future SARS-CoV-2 infections, hospitalizations, long-term sequelae, and death. Primary vaccination, additional doses, and booster doses are recommended for all eligible persons. Additional future recommendations for vaccine doses might be warranted as the virus and immunity levels change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But if you dig further into the release, you get a clearer picture of how vaccinated immunity and natural immunity stack up.<\/p>\n

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Across the entire study period, persons with vaccine- and infection-derived immunity had much lower rates of hospitalization compared with those in unvaccinated persons. These results suggest that vaccination protects against COVID-19 and related hospitalization and that surviving a previous infection protects against a reinfection. Importantly, infection-derived protection was greater after the highly transmissible Delta variant became predominant, coinciding with early declining of vaccine-induced immunity in many persons (5<\/i>). Similar data accounting for booster doses and as new variants, including Omicron, circulate will need to be assessed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The public healthy agency has allowed the American people to believe in the false argument that natural immunity does not work against Covid. But when you break down the numbers, you see that natural immunity from prior infection, in both the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, is potent protection against Covid.<\/p>\n

One might argue that natural immunity from prior infection is actually doing a lot of the heavy lifting among the vaccinated population, as will be seen below.<\/p>\n

The CDC\u2019s press release refers specifically to California and New York. But it\u2019s another case \u2014 Rhode Island \u2014 that provides one of the best illustrations of how the data break down.<\/p>\n

Dr. Andrew Bostom, an epidemiologist, delved into the data and provided the statistical breakdown that helps us fully understand what is going on:<\/p>\n

There was ~6X lower risk of covid-19 hospitalization and ~28X lower risk of covid-19 death,\u00a0comparing those with natural immunity to covid-19, regardless of vaccination status, to those fully vaccinated\u2026<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rhode Island raw data on covid-19 infections by vaccination and prior infection status, December, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you take these base numbers, which come from the Rhode Island Department of Health\u2019s website, you come to some startling conclusions. After verifying the data and the epidemiologist\u2019s methodology (Dr. Bostom changes some of the Rhode Island Health Department\u2019s terms and does some simple math before running the statistics), you can see that cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all greatly reduced by natural immunity.<\/p>\n

The strongest takeaway is regarding deaths. Even when correcting for scale, survival of a prior infection was by far the greatest predictor of surviving another Covid infection.<\/p>\n

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However, if one did not have a prior infection (or does not know if one had a prior infection), the argument can be made that vaccination appears to provide the best strategy of surviving one. (It is important to note that the vaccinated community in Rhode Island is much larger than the unvaccinated community; it is about twice as large, therefore the incidence rate for unvaccinated deaths is about three times as high).<\/p>\n

Yet, even as\u00a0the CDC estimated<\/a>\u00a0that as of September there were 146.6 million Americans with prior infections, the state-by-state breakdown, including Rhode Island, proves to be substantially higher after the Omicron surge, as Becker News had earlier predicted would be the case.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island\u2019s percent of prior infections:\u00a092 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here is New York\u2019s, for context on the CDC\u2019s latest press release. It is about\u00a088 percent<\/a>\u00a0prior infections.<\/p>\n

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Here is California\u2019s. About\u00a078 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Just for further context, here is Florida. About\u00a087 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For perspective, the Mayo Clinic once considered\u00a0200 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0with vaccinated or natural immunity to be sufficient to claim \u201cherd immunity.\u201d The latest Omicron numbers, based on CDC\u2019s Covid burden estimates, lead us to assess there may be as many as 250 million Americans with prior infections. (Cases, however, may be counted more than once.)<\/p>\n

Rhode Island\u2019s pattern of natural immunity being the best predictor of positive health outcomes holds up when it comes to hospitalizations.<\/p>\n

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As one can see, both the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups with prior infections had much better health outcomes. Furthermore, the health outcomes for the unvaccinated with natural immunity group was far superior to the vaccinated with no natural immunity group.<\/p>\n

Additionally, natural immunity proved to be a far superior barrier against Covid reinfection than vaccinations alone.<\/p>\n

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The CDC release and the state-level data both indicate that natural immunity has been a powerful defense against Covid-19. Two years into the pandemic, it has taken until now for the public health agency to admit it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even worse than that, however, as the data show. The vaccines are only of marginal utility, at best, to those who have had prior infections to SARS-CoV-2. And as recent studies show, even though the vaccines and as many as two \u201cbooster shots\u201d\u00a0fail to stop the spread<\/a>\u00a0and infections, Omicron appears to\u00a0confer natural immunity<\/a>\u00a0to other variants, such as Delta.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrevious infection with SARS-CoV-2 has shown to induce effec<\/span>tive immunity and protection against reinfections in most individ<\/span>uals,\u201d the \u00a0European Journal of Immunolog<\/em>y study said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the mainstream media have repeatedly tried to convince the American people that natural immunity is either a myth or is ineffective against Covid.<\/p>\n

CNN \u201creported\u201d on the news earlier today, but its first headline was blatantly wrong. It reported the reverse of what the CDC said. Phil Kerpen pointed out the CNN story\u2019s error.C<\/p>\n