Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/kLFxUFnwlbc   Previous studies show that mRNA CoVid vaccines induce stronger Covid  neutralizing antibody responses than do natural CoVid infections, but a new Israeli study shows these infections protect equally well against a second infection and its consequences.   The numbers show that a natural infection is 94.8% protective against a recurrent one, 94.1% protective against hospitalization, and 96.4% protective against a severe case of CoVid.  In comparison, the Pfizer vaccine was 92.8% protective against a CoVid infection, 94.2% protective against hospitalization, 94.4% protective against a severe CoVid infection.   This data suggests that limited CoVid vaccine resources should go first to those never infected with CoVid.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255670v1.full.pdf+html   #CoVid #vaccination #infection