The new Florida law forces private businesses to let workers opt out of COVID-19 mandates if they can prove immunity through a prior infection. However, the CDC says unvaccinated people who had been infected months earlier are five times more likely to get infected again than fully vaccinated people who didn't have a prior infection.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Republicans fighting President Joe Biden s coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity.
But how much immunity COVID-19 survivors have depends on how long ago they were infected, how sick they were, and if the virus variant they had is different from mutants circulating now, epidemiologists say.