[Robin Farris]

Originally Posted by S=kBlogW

Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.
Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave

Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection? - Israel National News

Here in the USA, latest data I have seen shows that 150 million adults are fully vaccinated, which of course goes up every day.

What about the number of covid survivors? There are about 36 million confirmed cases, but the CDC estimates the actual number at 4 times that, in May 2021 they put the number at 120 million Americans that have had covid (symptomatics, asymptomatics, never tested etc) Currently the number would be 144 million using CDC formula.

Estimated COVID-19 Burden | CDC

I see some crazy profiling going on here, such as "that creepy pick up driver with the flags for sure is not vaccinated" It's ridiculous and ugly to attempt vaccine profiling, truth is you don't have a clue who has been fully vaccinated and who has immunity via surviving covid.

Maybe the millions of covid survivors with their superior immunity to Delta will start shaming and discriminating against the vaccinated. Sorry, covid survivors only on this cruise, or in this restaurant etc etc. According to the data from Israel, they have better protection than you do.

As a COVID survivor I really want to say thank you! I clean houses for a living and I do a dang good job at it. As of lately some of my clients have started trying to push the shot on me and trying to make ME feel bad. I have always been booked but lately I have started letting people go. I have survived it and my antibodies in my own body knows what to do to protect it now period. I feel to each their own but don’t try to make me feel bad. I contracted it just before Christmas and trust me I am not in the best shape. A smoker of 30+ years, bad lungs…but I SURVIVED it. And I have had no problems since. I know that was not the case with all and for that I am sorry. I feel lucky to still be here today. But this shaming in either direction needs to stop. If something was to happen and maybe someone couldn’t get or tolerate the vaccine and became sick the next best thing might be one of us survivors donating our antibodies. Just let that sink in for a moment because guess what I don’t know you and you don’t know me but if asked I wouldn’t hesitate to help you however I could.