A new study recently showed that even people who recovered from COVID-19 are urged to get vaccinated as survivors who ignored that advice had twice the risk of getting reinfected.
The report came on Friday from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as the scientists urge people to get vaccinated because of the risk of highly transmissible delta variant which also includes people who had a previous infection. There are growing evidence that vaccines offer an important boost to natural immunity, including wider protection against new variants of coronavirus and these reports have come from Kentucky.
CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said, if you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated. The best way to protect yourself and people around you is to get the vaccine, especially when the more contagious delta variant spreads around the country.
Although yet there’s little information on reinfections with the newer delta variant. But US health officials point to early data from Britain that the reinfection risk appears greater with delta than with the common alpha variant, once people are six months past their prior infection.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert, said at a recent White House briefing that there’s no doubt that vaccinating a COVID-19 survivor enhances both the amount and breadth of immunity so that you cover not only the original (virus) but the variants.
