Policy Brief: Natural Immunity Should be Included as a Vaccine Exemption

vaccinations of previously infected healthcare workers to prevent just ONE new asymptomatic Bostom, an adjunct medical scholar to the RI Center for case among that group Freedom & Prosperity and a Brown University credentialed o Reactions to these 883 vaccinations would epidemiologist, when assessing the benefits and risks of produce 80 instances of “moderate to natural immunity to Covid-19 as com. [...] The risk of new clinical symptomatic infection is In conclusion, while the Center opposes government- 7.0 times lower among those previously infected imposed mask and vaccine mandates, the data clearly and who were not vaccinated, as compared to those demonstrates that “natural immunity” is an important policy with no prior infection, who were fully vaccinated consideration; and that the existin. [...] The data comparing the reactions of those covid-19 NNT/NNH or NNH/NNT, provide quantitative estimates vaccinated with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection of the benefit/risk, or risk/benefit ratios, respectively. [...] The proportion reporting one moderate to severe symptom was higher in the previous SARS-CoV-2 The question of whether to mandate covid-19 vaccination infected group (56% v 47%, OR=1.5 [95%CI, 1.1–2.0], of previously SARS-CoV-2 infected healthcare workers p=.009), with fever, fatigue, myalgia-arthralgia and can be uniquely illuminated by calculating NNT and lymphadenopathy significantly more common. [...] analyses from this Israeli HMO cohort found, similarly, that covid-19 vaccination of previously SARS-CoV-2 Finally, July, 2021 SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19) infection infected persons did not reduce either symptomatic, data collected by the Rhode Island Department of Health, clinical SARS-CoV-2 infections, or covid-19 with presentation of the findings by both vaccination, and hospitalizations, the occurre.