“Natural infection ... is giving profound immunity and then giving an immunity better than the vaccine.”
What FactCheck.org found
Early research on omicron doesn’t show natural immunity having an advantage against this variant. Fully vaccinated individuals who receive a booster shot have the strongest immune response, research shows.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rand Paul (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 21 January 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 January 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Rand Paul has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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