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Study Suggests the Unvaccinated Will Continually Come Down With COVID-19

By Kristen Pratt Machado On Oct 20, 2021 0

A study conducted by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health surmise that unvaccinated individuals will catch COVID-19 every 16 months to 17 months due to waning natural immunity. Researchers used a model in which all individuals had either been vaccinated against COVID-19 or had already been infected by it. They found that the immunity gained from infection was fairly short lived, allowing continual reinfection. Because SARS-CoV-2 has not been circulating long enough to produce sufficient data, researchers used close viral relatives in their estimation. Click here to read more.

Kristen Pratt Machado

Kristen Pratt Machado is executive editor for Dimensions of Dental Hygiene and Decisions in Dentistry and director of publishing operations for Belmont Business Media. She has been with the company since its inception in 2001.

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