Even if you've had Covid you should get vaccinated for the following reasons ...
“A lot of times after someone has recovered from COVID-19, they are somewhat protected against getting the infection again,” says Ellen Foxman, an immunologist at the Yale School of Medicine. “However, the vaccine was designed specifically to block infection, and when you have a natural immune response, sometimes it results in really good protection against the second infection, but sometimes it doesn’t.”
This means that even if you’ve had COVID-19, the vaccine will boost your immunity and reduce your chances of becoming reinfected and sick again in the future. “People who have the natural infection may actually be more susceptible to reinfection than if they have the vaccine,” says Cynthia Leifer, an immunologist at Cornell University. For some other diseases, vaccines are known to prompt a more protective immune response than the actual infection, including HPV and tetanus.
