Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here .

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:11.1	This is your FastTrack update on the COVID pandemic.
0:14.2	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:17.9	and the disease.
0:19.4	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:23.1	I'm Tony Lewis, I'm Josh Fishman, and we're a scientific American senior health editors.
0:29.2	Today we'll talk about how vaccines boost immunity, even if you've already been infected.
0:34.5	And how to handle going back to the office, even though COVID is still around.
0:41.2	Many unvaccinated people believe that if you got COVID once, you're totally protected
0:45.0	against getting it again.
0:46.7	But that's not true.
0:48.1	Can you explain?
0:49.4	You're talking about the idea of natural immunity, that an early infection prevents another
0:53.5	one.
0:54.5	It turns out that isn't the best protection you can get.
0:57.3	What seems to be better is something that scientists are calling hybrid immunity.
1:01.5	That's natural infection plus a full course of vaccines.
1:04.8	Three recent studies support this idea.
1:07.2	Now, a previous infection does help.
1:10.2	A paper just published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases looked at people in Sweden
1:14.8	who were infected once.
1:16.3	They had a lower risk of another infection when compared with folks who hadn't ever been
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