CTV News: Prior Omicron infection didn't protect some seniors from reinfection: study

[moderators, please move if this is the wrong place. maybe it belongs in the vaccine thread?]

I'm hoping that folks smarter than I can talk about this new study.
Prior Omicron infection didn't protect some seniors from reinfection: study

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/prior-om...some-seniors-from-reinfection-study-1.6527971

I also saw this video posted on mastodon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCN1KP2XH0

 

Interesting, and of course concerning.

Public health officials in Canada, and probably elsewhere, have been saying how a combo of vaccination, plus infection provides extra protection.

This advice now seems questionable.

 

If they were a "huge surprise", you might consider a different profession.

For years we heard about how "it's not just the flu". What MD in their right mind would ever suggest that being repeatedly infected with a flu virus, several times per year with different variants, would protect against being infected again and again, and make it all magically mild?

We literally have a flu season every year, it's super famous and a big thing in healthcare because they do a vaccination campaign. Every. Single. Year. As if a virus that is even more contagious and mutates faster would just magically become harmless and die out as background noise. Good grief this is steak-slapping-to-the-face foolish.

And wow is this messaging going to bite everyone in the ass if there is ever a really bad flu pandemic, which has long been considered the worst-case scenario for a really dangerous pandemic. Even though, well, we just had one kill over 20M+, disabled tens of millions more, and it's as if it never even happened, even though it's still happening.

Quick suggestion, but:

Don't believe in nonsense. Or believe at all. The precautionary principle literally stands against this absurd belief, it was always complete BS. Medicine should not be decided on beliefs, and certainly not at the public health level. Although we sadly know better here.

In computer science, we didn't "believe" in Y2K. We understood it. Dealt with it. And there's a similar issue with the year 2038. We will deal with it. Because we are serious professionals who don't "believe" in stuff. We investigate, analyze and thoroughly work out solutions.

This winter is going to be really something. Even if governments attempt measures, there are going to be people recklessly going around infecting people on purpose, and it will not be possible to put up restrictions or laws against it. What a mess they created with all their hopium and false beliefs about illness.

 

Yes indeed.