According A study published just a few days ago, by the lab at Oregon Health and Science University, there are indications that there is more than one path to a very strong immunity against COVID-19.
The study proposes two forms of immunity: becoming infected after being vaccinated, or natural infection followed by vaccination. Both situations would give approximately equal levels of immune protection very powerful, according to the magazine Science Immunology.
The best immune response
“It doesn’t matter if you get infected and then get vaccinated, or if you get vaccinated and then advanced infection. In either case, you’re going to get a very, very strong, incredibly high immune response,” says lead author Dr. doctor Fikadu Tafesse, professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the OHSU School of Medicine.
10x stronger immunity
The new research found that it doesn’t matter whether someone gets a more or less severe infection, or gets vaccinated after a natural infection. In both cases, the immune response measured in blood revealed antibodies that were equally more abundant and more potent (at least 10 times more potent) than the immunity generated by vaccination alone.
The endemic COVID, closer
Over time, the virus will run into a growing group of people with high immunity. According to him doctor Bill Messer, assistant professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Medicine (infectious diseases) at the OHSU School of Medicine, “at this point, I would expect that many vaccinated people end up with advanced infections and thus a form of hybrid immunity,” another of the study participants.
Except in the laboratory, there will be no way of knowing who has superimmunity, and who does not, but there is a way to go little by little, reaching a COVID endemic.
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