“Pro-life” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) suggested on Fox News that people should get the deadly COVID virus, which has killed more than 5 million worldwide, instead of being vaccinated. Mace’s convoluted logic was that “natural immunity” was somehow better than being vaccinated (which results in immunity the safe way).
Mace falsely claimed that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has not “taken into account what natural immunity does,” even though the CDC clearly did, noted The Washington Post on Nov. 1:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has weighed in for the first time in a detailed science report released with little fanfare Friday evening. Reviewing scores of research studies and its own unpublished data, the agency found that both infection-induced and vaccine-induced immunity are durable for at least six months — but that vaccines are more consistent in their protection and offer a huge boost in antibodies for people previously infected.
In comparing the two types of immunity, scientists said research shows vaccination provides a “higher, more robust, and more consistent level of immunity to protect people from COVID-19 than infection alone.”
(Sources: Christianity Today, Fox News via Twitter, The Washington Post)