natural immunity
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"It's going to have to run through the community. Until they get that natural immunity, it'll just keep running its course."
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
He argued against lockdowns and masking for children, questioned the benefits of vaccine boosters, and predicted incorrectly that populations would quickly acquire natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 25, 2024
With KP.3.1.1, “the particular variation that came up in this mutation was a little different than what people had seen with either natural immunity or with the vaccinations that we had available,” Hudson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024
"Chimpanzees are extremely susceptible to dying from diseases that originate in humans and to which they have little natural immunity," Langergraber said.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023
Science shows that 95 percent of the human population has natural immunity to Hansen’s disease.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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