Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show, the phone number, if you'd like to be on the program, 8779979-9-7-3-7-425. I want to out of the gate finish off this conversation with David on COVID. David, welcome to the program.

Hey, Eric, how are you doing? Great. How much

self? Not bad, not bad. I have a question on some of the data that they should be collecting,

and I'm kind of curious on all of the more recent COVID cases that are coming out.

And they've got numbers on whoever's getting it. If they've previously had COVID or previously

vaccinated, previously

unvaccinated with COVID, are they separating those numbers out?

Do they have some states are?

There's not a uniform standard in some states are Vermont, for example, is doing so.

And it is right now in Vermont.

You've got a fair number of vaccinated people who are getting COVID, who never had COVID before.

They are not being hospitalized.

The people who are being hospitalized in Vermont are people who are unvaccinated, and this is their first time having COVID.

They're the ones being hospitalized.

But not every state has that sort of division.

Some of these breakthrough cases of the new Delta variant. What I'm wondering is kind of what would be more effective prior COVID with antibodies or the vaccine.

Yeah. And you know, there have been a couple of research studies on that,

and like that Canada has one and Israel has one, and a lot of people who are pro-natural

immunity cite the Israeli study. The Canadian study shows almost the exact opposite.

I've avoided that topic because I don't think it's very conclusive, although what is very conclusive is that if you've had COVID and gotten one round of the vaccine, you are the least likely person on planet Earth to get a second round of COVID.

It can happen, but those are the rarest ones.

And I think we got to be mindful of that.

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