Natural Covid immunity is likely 'not going to last in perpetuity,' former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday.
"You can redose a vaccine. You don't want to redose an infection," said Gottlieb, who led the FDA from 2017 to 2019 in the Trump administration. "To acquire infection-induced immunity you have to actually get the infection which is something that we want to try to actively avoid, so getting a vaccine has a lot of elegant attributes in that regard."
Nearly 62% of the U.S. population has received at least one Covid vaccine dose, while 52.4% are fully vaccinated, according toHealth officials, politicians and business leaders alike have been urging more Americans to receive a Covid vaccine. A number of companies and other entities such as universities are, in hopes of convincing hesitant people to take the lifesaving shot.
Some unvaccinated Americans may believe their previous coronavirus infection offers adequate protection against the disease, so they do not feel a sense of urgency to get the vaccine. However, Gottlieb's remarks Wednesday add to his previously stated view that previously infected people who then get vaccinated have"At least with one dose, you do develop a broad, very deep, very durable immunity based on the data that we've seen so far," Gottlieb said July 6 on CNBC.
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