A
new study has revealed how often
unvaccinated people will catch COVID-19 in a given length of time.
The
study — which comes from the Yale School of Public Health — reviewed new data on natural immunity, per
The Hill.
- Unvaccinated people should expect to catch COVID-19 once every 16 months, the study said.
Natural immunity does not last overly long, the study found. The researchers reviewed a model where everyone was either infected with COVID-19 or vaccinated against the virus.
- “Our results are based on average times of waning immunity across multiple infected individuals,” Hayley Hassler, a co-author of the study, told Yale Daily News. “Any one of those individuals may experience longer or shorter durations of immunity depending on immune status, cross-immunity, age, and multiple other factors.”
Of course, this doesn’t have to be the case. People could cut down their risk of getting infected with the coronavirus if they get the COVID-19 vaccine or wear masks to prevent the spread.