From what I hear if you have had both jabs..and caught covid-19....and it hasn't been 14 days since your second jab you are considered as unvaccinated and your case is counted as such.
Somehow I doubt 97% of those in the hospital for covid are those who only received their first shot and not second...no doubt a few are...but most are,UNVACCINATED.
Anyway, the problem is this for those who are jabbed....Covid-19 has a spike with the S protein and the vaccine is designed to create antibodies for just the S protein. That's how the jab protects you. It's also derived from the original Covid-19 virus. A person with natural immunity has more protection as they have antibodies from the S protein as well as the other proteins.
so, are we supposed to go out and have "infection parties" in the hopes we all get a mild case of covid, to get those antibodies? Problem is, there us no way of knowing who will get the more virulent version and wind up in hospital ICUs. But studies have shown that those who have had covid, then later on, get the vaccine, have the most antibodies. I hope that is true of our daughter, who is diabetic.
Later as the new varients arrive which has drifted away from the S protein the body see's the somewhat different spike and thinks it is a spike from the original Covid-19 S protein and then begins to generate an attack against what it thinks is the original Covid-19....and will have no effect of the variant.
This is false. The vaccine can help a vaccinated person who gets the Delta variant stay out of the hospital and get a much milder case. Remember those party goers on Cape Cod on July 4? Most were vaccinated...and many came down with the Delta variant...but if I remember correctly, only 5 were hospitalized, and NONE DIED.
That will present a problem for that person. Someone who has a natural immunity has a broder range of protection and will be more able to defend against the variants.
That may or may not be true,. But a person first must get the disease, and pray it doesn't turn deadly. But some evidence shows that those who got covid, and recovered, then got the vaccine a few months later have the best antibody load to fight the disease. I hope so, for my diabetic daughter's sake, and my grandson's sake, though he got the disease 5 months after he got his second dose of the vaccine. My daughter got covid back after the first of the year.