# Coronavirus general discussion and chit-chat **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [August 12, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903 "2020-08-12T17:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 800
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903/800 "2021-09-27T22:03:53Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > It seems to me that if someone wants to substitute immunity through infection for immunity via vaccine, the onus should be on them to show that there is very strong data to support that, and that infectious disease experts have concluded from that data that people who have had covid are at least as protected as those who’ve been vaccinated. > > At this point, I don’t think there is any such data, and I think the recommendations have been for people who have had covid to still get vaccinated. See this post: [Is having Covid previously as good a protection as full vaccination? - #5 by Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-covid-previously-as-good-a-protection-as-full-vaccination/949405/5) That’s the largest study I’m aware of looking at immunity acquired through infection compared to vaccine acquired immunity. They found that natural infection provided stronger immunity than the vaccine. Here’s an article in _Science_ discussing the study: [https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital](https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-vaccination-remains-vital) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903)._