recorecover that you re going to have a significant degree of protection. what we don t know because it hasn t been studied as precisely as the post-vaccination immunological response, that we don t know what the durability of it is, what the level of it is. people who push back who say, wait a minute, are you saying that you don t get protection. no, you get a considerable degree of protection from getting infected and recovered, but the thing that we do know that we re very sure of that if you take an infected person who s recovered and then you vaccinate that person, that s the highest level of protection both t cells, antibody, and all the immune parameters. it gets way, way higher than anything else. that s the reason why the cdc continues to recommend that if you have been infected that you subsequently get vaccinated for the optimal protection. there s obviously, you know, concern about omicron in the last few days, but the delta variant is still a very serious
couple months ago now, dr. fauci. where do we stand on the idea of the protection that you get from having had covid. well, there s no doubt, sanjay that if you are infected with sars-cov-2 and you recover that you re going to have a significant degree of protection. what we don t know because it hasn t been studied as precisely as the post-vaccination immunological response, that we don t know what the durability of it is, what the level of it is. people who push back who say, wait a minute, are you saying that you don t get protection. no, you get a considerable degree of protection from getting infected and recovered, but the thing that we do know that we re very sure of that if you take an infected person who s recovered and then you vaccinate that person, that s the highest level of protection both t cells, antibody, and all the immune parameters. it gets way, way higher than anything else.