Report: COVID Natural Immunity Offers Similar Level Of Protection As Jab

Recovering from COVID provides a similar level of protection as two doses of either Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, official figures suggest.

An Office for National Statistics report published Monday found unvaccinated Britons who catch the Delta variant are around 71% less likely to test positive for a second time, Daily Mail reports.

The full report published by the Office for National Statistics can be read here.

It is estimated the risk of infection is slashed by approximately 67% in people given two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca's jabs, according to the report.

The ONS report states there was 'no evidence' vaccines offered more immunity than catching COVID itself, despite a number of other studies showing the opposite. Daily Mail reports the findings are based on more than 8,000 positive tests across Britain between May and August, when the Delta variant became dominant.

Samples were collected from unvaccinated and fully vaccinated participants, some of whom had previously had the virus already.

Figure 5 shows the risk ratios for testing positive by vaccine exposure group during the Delta-dominant period, irrespective of vaccine type, according to the report.

The report found those who received two doses of either vaccine had reduced the risk of testing positive by between 64% to 70% during the Delta period.

The report states there was no evidence that the reduction in risk of infection from two vaccine doses differed from that of previous natural infection with a 71% risk reduction.

The full report published by the Office for National Statistics can be read here.

Figure 6 shows the risk ratios for testing positive by vaccine exposure group during the Delta-dominant period, split by vaccine type. The report, again, states there was no evidence that the reduction in risk of infection from two doses of either vaccine differed from that of previous natural infection.

The full report published by the Office for National Statistics can be read here.

The full report published by the Office for National Statistics can be read here.