On 2/5/2021 7:06 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 2/5/2021 3:43 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Muggles" wrote in message


I've examined the facts, and won't take a brand new vaccine.* My
immune system works.

That’s what most of the 2.25 million dead world wide from this virus
claimed too.

gee* how would you know what 2.25 million dead people claimed?



Hey Muggles, here's another fact for you, a real fact: In data just
released yesterday from the Norovax Phase III study; in their South
African cohort of test subjects, numerous subjects in both the
received-vaccine subset (the challenge arm of the study) and in the the
placebo arm of the study (they received sterile saline instead of the
vaccine) had a documented history of previous infection with the initial
variant of the COVID-19 virus. That history was documented both by
medical history and by PCR testing. When tracked over the subsequent
two months to compare Norovax vaccine efficacy against a placebo shot,
there were numerous cases of serious infection with the newer South
African variant of the COVID-19 virus in the placebo group and NO cases
of serious infection with the South African variant in the group that
had received the real vaccine. To remind you, this is a group of
patients all with a documented medical history of previous infection
with the initial COVID variant.

If you really already have had a COVID infection, it was almost
certainly with the initial variant. The data set I'm describing is the
first published evidence that previous infection with the initial
prevalent variant of COVID does NOT protect against subsequent infection
with the South African variant, but at least 1 vaccine in the pipeline,
the Norovax vaccine, DOES provide protection. Both Pfizer and Moderna
are currently running analogous Phase III studies to test the efficacy
of their vaccines against both the U.K. and the South African variants.

In one easy sentence: you are NOT immune to future infection with newer
variants just because you previously had an infection with the original
variant of the COVID virus, but you are likely to gain significant
protection if not full immunity against newer variants if you get
vaccinated.

These are the facts as of this AM.