Quote Originally Posted by bleedXblue View Post
what about hospitalizations of those that have had the virus and natural immunity? Just curious what you are seeing? Are you a Dr or nurse?
Not many but a few hospitalized reinfections. Typically if you survive the first one the odds are you’ll do ok the 2nd time around. Antibody levels seem to last longer with natural immunity as well. There are exceptions to everything of course. I have yet to see someone hospitalized though who had primary infection then vaccinated. I also I have yet to see anyone test positive that had the disease and vaccine. I’m sure it’s happened (to someone immunocompromised likely) but I haven’t seen it.

Thanks for asking, I have a very unique position. Unfortunately, I am a lifelong student. After Xavier I went to med school and had a health scare that forced me to put that on pause for about a year. The following year I opted to go to PA school in New York instead and made a career out of that for 18 years and still use that for income. I am entrenched in an MD/PhD program that seems never ending because I am not doing it full time (financial reasons, mostly, as I can’t afford to take 8+ years off work at my age, 43). I am in a private practice for primary care on the outpatient side and infectious disease on the inpatient side. Time is split 90/10 outpatient/inpatient. I also contract with a nursing company that streamlines the monoclonal antibody infusions, essentially showing the hospital systems how to set up an efficient system. Side note on that, it’s still mostly an inefficient system to which demand outweighs capability to the systems. People are being treated way too late in the big hospital systems. I think the best solution is somewhere between the current setup here and what Florida had in large treatment centers.