Covid has 3 protein markers. After you get infected your antibodies will continue to recognise all three.
However the vaccines don't have all three, so the antibodies generated are not as all encompassing as they would be if you contracted Covid.
Therefore, if it doesn't kill you, having Covid puts you in a better position to fight off variants.
At least that's how I understand it from all the articles I read about the various vaccines, that said, IANAD, so don't take this post as medical advice.
You are correct. Both links that he posted are talking about reinfection. So prior infection + vaccine > infection (no vaccine) > vaccine only > no infection/no vaccine.
This study talks about reinfection for vaccinated patients and not about reinfection of unvaccinated patients. This does not seem to contradict the parent comment.
After this legitimation crisis, sorry, but articulate strangers are often the best way to "read the headlines upside down" - a necessary fact of life now.
You might want to look at the multiple peer reviewed studies I posted in a different reply, because you are spreading misinformation.
There is a big public health motivation (completely understandable) for why they don't talk much about natural immunity.
A lot of people, my lovable but dumb as a rock sister included, who had some symptoms after socializing with people who end up testing positive, who never got the test themselves. They just assume they were infected. We definitely don't want these people to skip the vaccines. But again, managing the behavior of morons is a separate activity from determining the actual truth of the matter.
Covid has 3 protein markers. After you get infected your antibodies will continue to recognise all three.
However the vaccines don't have all three, so the antibodies generated are not as all encompassing as they would be if you contracted Covid.
Therefore, if it doesn't kill you, having Covid puts you in a better position to fight off variants.
At least that's how I understand it from all the articles I read about the various vaccines, that said, IANAD, so don't take this post as medical advice.