The Triumph of Natural Immunity
BY Martin Kulldorff
May 7, 2022
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-triump...ty_4452292.html


A new CDC study shows that around 75 percent of American children have already had COVID. That means they have strong natural immunity that protects them from COVID infections as they get older. Despite this, the CDC, the FDA, and other government agencies are pushing all of them to get vaccinated.

Why?

One important role of public health agencies during a pandemic is to conduct seroprevalence studies to determine how many people have developed antibodies to the disease from having been infected. That way we understand how the disease has spread and how it varies geographically and among different age groups. Spain did such a large, randomized survey early during the pandemic while Sweden did a series of smaller randomized surveys at regular intervals.

In the United States, this important task was left to individual scientists, but they only had resources to conduct small surveys in limited areas, such as the Santa Clara County Study. The CDC has now finally got its act together with a national survey. The results are illuminating.

In April 2020, the Santa Clara study showed that 3 percent of its population had been infected. In February 2022, the CDC study shows that at least 58 percent percent of Americans have had COVID, as evidenced by their anti-nucleocapsid antibodies, which are produced due to infections but not the vaccines. The numbers vary by age.

What does this mean? We know that natural immunity after COVID recovery provides excellent protection against future infections, and, while COVID will be with us for the rest of our lives, it will be something that our immune system will cope with in the way it’s handling the other four widely circulating coronaviruses.

It means we’re now transitioning from the pandemic stage to the endemic stage, and we’ll eventually reach herd immunity, the end point of every pandemic no matter what strategy is used.

Given these numbers, why are the CDC, the FDA, and the government pushing hard for all children to get vaccinated against COVID? Why are some schools and universities mandating COVID vaccines for children and young adults? The majority already have superior natural immunity.

All of them are at minuscule risk from dying from COVID even if they haven’t had it, a risk that’s smaller than dying from any of a whole range of other causes such as motor vehicle accidents, drowning, homicide, suicide, drug overdoses, or cancer. While anyone can get infected, there is more than a thousand-fold difference in COVID mortality between older and younger people.-- excerpt, rest at link above --