New data show those who recovered from Covid-19 were less likely than vaccinated people to get infected during the Delta wave. New data show those who recovered from Covid-19 were less likely than vaccinated to get infected during Delta waveNew data released Wednesday showed that both vaccination and prior infection offered strong protection against infection and hospitalization from Covid-19 during the Delta wave — and that case and hospitalization rates were actually lower among people who had recovered from Covid-19 than among those who had been vaccinated. It also looked at data during the Delta wave and does not account for the surging Omicron variant. People who previously had Covid-19 but had not been vaccinated had 29-fold (California) and 14.7-fold (New York) lower case rates. The rates were 55.3-fold lower among unvaccinated people who’d had Covid-19, and 57.5-fold lower among people who’d been vaccinated and had Covid-19.
