classical5
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& my relative, a nurse, got the vaccine
Do I still need to get vaccinated if I’ve already had COVID-19?
"Andrew Badley, M.D., COVID-19 Research Task Force Chair, Mayo Clinic: If you've already had COVID-19, should you still get vaccinated? The answer is yes. Several reasons for that. One is that the duration of immunity that you receive after having COVID-19 disease is variable. Our current estimates are that that goes away over about three months. The vaccine protection can augment that. So our current recommendations are, if you've had COVID-19, wait until you're better and up to about 90 days or three months and then receive the vaccine when you're able to."
It’s way too early to tell how long immunity lasts.
In general natural immunity is better. Tetanus immunity from vax lasts 8-10 years, if you get tetanus and survive you have lifetime immunity. Whooping cough immunity from vax lasts maybe 8-10 years (they think maybe 5), natural is lifetime.
Some vaccines are lifetime like polio vax, but so is natural immunity to polio.
Same with flu, natural immunity is life long for that particular strain. There is every reason to expect covid natural immunity is life long or at least longer than vax immunity.
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