People can develop temporary natural immunity after recovering from COVID-19. However, vaccines are the best way to train the immune system to recognize viruses. When a vaccinated person encounters ...

Decision makers should take both natural immunity and vaccination status into consideration to obtain a full picture of an individual's immunity profile." Since January 2021, several studies and ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Natural immunity due to COVID-19 infection provides strong protection against reinfection and serious illness for several months after initial infection, but immunity wanes over time, a new study has ...

Social media users are sharing online articles and misleading claims about the superiority of “natural immunity” compared to vaccine-induced antibody responses based on results of a study published ...

In a new study, University of Georgia researchers have found that natural immunity from previous flu infections has a significant impact on how well future influenza vaccinations work. That may mean ...

According to a recent meta-analysis published in The Lancet, natural immunity provides greater protection against COVID-19 than vaccinations. Data analysis from 56 research in 19 countries revealed ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been prolonged by the emergence of several variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These variants often have ...

Largest review and meta-analysis assessing the extent of protection following COVID-19 infection by variant and how durable that protection is against different variants, including 65 studies from 19 ...