CDC: ‘Limited evidence’ recovered COVID-19 patients need vaccine

[Revmitchell]

The CDC has finally admitted it did not have enough evidence to support vaccine mandates for people who have recovered from COVID-19. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shared the CDC study on Twitter, which said the CDC had only “limited evidence” to suggest COVID vaccines would provide any benefits to recovered patients.


CDC: ‘Limited evidence’ recovered COVID-19 patients need vaccine

 

[JonC]

Not exactly "no evidence".

From the article:

"Although laboratory evidence suggests that antibody responses following COVID-19 vaccination provide better neutralization of some circulating variants than does natural infection (1,2), few real-world epidemiologic studies exist to support the benefit of vaccination for previously infected persons. "



"In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus. These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections."

Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19...

Coronavirus Disease 2019