NBC delivered a lbelatedValentine’s Day gift to people who probably don’t watch their networks. A headline that includes the words “Immunity acquired from a Covid infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death.”
This will come as a surprise to their actual audience, who have, for several years, been told that nothing could be further from the truth. No worries, they soft-sell it, wrapped in a hand-made pro-vaccine narrative to protect them from the larger truth.
Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.
Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found.
NBC quickly pivots to the old narratives. Vaccination and boosters are still the preferable routes, with links to their own hogwash about the unvaccinated being at higher risk of hospitalization.
At no point do they lament another inconvenient truth. That the vaccinated are more susceptible to infection, spreading the virus to their immune depressed vaccinated brethren, or ending up in a hospital and dying. Or that the more boosted you are, the worse that problem could get. There is nothing about the vaccine risks or side effects, not even those the CDC, FDA, and Others have been admitting in recent months. Events that, for a majority, make COVID vaccination more dangerous to them than SARS-CoV2.
They left all of that out.
So yeah, that heart-shaped box of chocolates still has a bunch of left- in it. They also make you scroll through all their pro-vaccine propaganda shaded with good news about natural immunity (without ever using the word natural) to get to this.
The immunity generated from an infection was found to be “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine, the authors wrote.
They never say this about natural infections, from The Lancet research cited.
[P]rotection against severe disease remained high for all variants, with 90·2% (69·7–97·5) for ancestral, alpha, and delta variants, and 88·9% (84·7–90·9) for omicron BA.1 at 40 weeks.
Or that this research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which ties in nicely with recent remarks by pro-covid-vaccine Supervillian Bill Gates.
But what’s most important of all, disregarding the mixed message from NBC, is that a major government propaganda arm has admitted that the case for natural immunity was never misinformation.
