ATLANTA - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a message for unvaccinated people relying on previous COVID-19 infections to provide immunity against future infections: Get vaccinated.It’s the same message the CDC has spent most of 2021 delivering to Americans.
But this time, they’re presenting data from a new study that details how much more protective vaccines are than immunity achieved through previous infections.Published Friday, the study looked at data from the VISION Network on adults hospitalized with COVID-19-like symptoms.
Researchers found unvaccinated people who had recovered from previous a COVID-19 infection three to six months prior were five times more likely to test positive for the virus than.