Category: vaccine immunity

Immunology 101: COVID-19 and Natural Versus Vaccine Immunity

Have you ever wondered exactly how your immune system works? Or how natural immunity differs from vaccine-induced immunity when it comes to SARS-CoV-2, the virus more popularly known as COVID-19? Despite all the complicated terms you may read in the news, it’s actually quite simple—once you understand the basics and understand the soldiers and engineers…


What Is Original Antigenic Sin and Why Do We Care?

Commentary As the United States feverishly rolls out COVID-19 vaccination “booster” shots, Israel is reporting trudging toward a fourth shot in response to evidence of waning immunity protection and rapidly increasing cases after its widespread administration of a third shot last fall. Notably, all of these shots continue to use the original, long-extinct wild-type variant…


Pandemic Response ‘Politicized, Self-Destructive’: Immunologist Steven Templeton

Lockdowns, school closures, universal masking, vaccine mandate; these responses to COVID-19 are “self-destructive” and more politicized than scientific, according to immunologist Steven Templeton. Templeton once worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for four years. Now he’s an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University. This week he shared his…


Natural Immunity Versus Vaccine Immunity

Commentary You never know when something you say will go viral. It has happened a number of times in my career, the latest being comments I made on my national radio talk show a few weeks ago when I had COVID-19. I said that I had hoped I would attain natural immunity, since science—evidenced, for…