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US Failure to Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response
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Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.
Wasn’t this obvious 3 years ago? But at least it's being recognized.
See also: Looking Back on the Sadism of the Covid-19 Shaming Campaign
The Epoch Times: US Failure to Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response: NIH Scientist
2023-04-17. Emphasis added.
The failure to recognize how post-infection immunity is similar or superior to that bestowed by vaccination led to prolonged school closures and other problems, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist told Congress on May 11.
U.S. health agencies “chose to disregard natural immunity,” leading to “lost jobs, staffing shortages, children kept out of school, and wasted vaccines,” said Margery Smelkinson, a research scientist at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
.... Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told the panel that the stance against natural immunity adopted by Fauci and others didn’t make sense, pointing in part to Fauci saying previously that people who recovered from influenza didn’t need vaccination “because the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself.”
“They dismissed it, saying there was uncertainty, ‘we don’t know how long it’s going to last.’ As if we knew how long vaccinated immunity was going to last,” said Makary, who also said he was testifying in a personal capacity.
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WIND: the story of COVID is a story of destruction and misery from government malfeasance and anti-scientific propaganda. It was not a story of good people trying to do good things; it was a story of sociopaths and fascists stomping on people.
Trusting the government on anything is for children and idiots.
See also: Biden White House and Big Disinformation Have Policies to Ban “True Content” on COVID Vaccines
