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You will still need the shot every fall! Bother!!!!<\/p>\n
Having had Covid-19 in the past does not give you immunity to it, per this article from Marine Corps Times. Marines who had it and recovered before they arrived at boot camp were not immune to it after they arrived. They still tested positive after arriving for training. Most likely, a different variant is what infected them, because this nasty bug shifts its RNA around like a poker dealer at a casino.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/16\/having-covid-doesnt-guarantee-immunity-study-of-marine-recruits-finds\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 Ten percent of the recruits whose blood tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies before training were re-infected with COVID while in basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island<\/a>, South Carolina.<\/p>\n The findings make a strong argument for healthy young Americans to get vaccinated, according to researchers.<\/p>\n \u201cFor our particular population, this is very strong data about why individuals previously infected, regardless of whether they had symptoms or not, should get the vaccine in accordance with DoD policy,\u201d said Navy Cmdr. Andrew Letizia, deputy director of the infectious disease directorate at the Naval Medical Research Center. The doctor is one of the researchers and authors of the study, published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal Thursday.<\/p>\n Antibodies are proteins made by the immune system to fight infections; it\u2019s uncertain whether young adults who get COVID are at risk of getting it again. NMRC conducted the study along with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to examine how effective antibodies are in preventing future COVID infections. \u2013 article<\/p>\n It\u2019s a nasty bug, one that you don\u2019t want and apparently, even if you catch it and survive (as has been outlined on the local news where I live), you only have the antibodies for that variant. This critter shifts its RNA around like a cheap hooker on a bender, the same as the flu does every year. As a local doctor who is the head of the Infectious Diseases at a university said this morning, we’ll have to approach the same as the seasonal flu shot: a booster every fall.<\/p>\n No, we’re not doomed — not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"