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US Failure to Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response: NIH Scientist

The Epoch Times

May 11, 2023
Updated: May 11, 2023
 
The failure to recognize how post-infection immunity is similar or superior to that bestowed by vaccination led to prolonged school closures and other problems, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist was set to tell Congress on May 11.
U.S. health agencies “chose to disregard natural immunity,” leading to “lost jobs, staffing shortages, children kept out of school, and wasted vaccines,” Margery Smelkinson, a research scientist at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said in prepared testimony.