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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/vaccinated-at-higher-risk-of-covid-19-infection-studies_4937374.html?utm_source=andshare

People who have received COVID-19 vaccines are more likely to get infected than those who are unvaccinated, according to two new studies.

CLEVELAND CLINIC

In one paper (pdf), from Cleveland Clinic researchers, each successive dose heightened the incidence of infection. The lowest incidence was among the unvaccinated.

In the other study, researchers in Indiana found that vaccinated people had a higher incidence of infection when compared to unvaccinated people who have natural immunity, or protection from surviving an initial infection.

The studies are the latest to find low or even negative effectiveness against infection among the vaccinated. A growing number of experts are pointing to immune imprinting, or suggesting it could be a cause. The term refers to how an immune system can be locked in by exposure to an early version of a virus, thus hindering its response to mutated versions. The COVID-19 vaccines target only the original virus strain…

Old vaccines “may have trained the immune response to expect a specific narrow pre-omicron challenge; thus, the response was inferior when the actual challenge was an immune-evasive omicron subvariant,” Qatari researchers wrote in a recent paper (pdf), which found a booster dose lowered the protection against infection.

CLEVELAND CLINIC PAPER

In their paper, a preprint published by medRxiv, Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed data from clinic employees to arrive at estimates of vaccine effectiveness. The retrospective cohort study looked at data from Sept. 12, when the new boosters became available, through Dec. 12.

Researchers not only found the updated vaccines provide poor protection, but the “unexpected” result that people who received more doses of either version of the shots had an increased risk of infection.

…their risk of acquiring COVID-19 was lower than those who received a larger number of prior vaccine doses,” they added.

The researchers noted that multiple other studies, including the Qatari paper, have offered similar results.

…No funding sources for the study were listed. Under “funding,” researchers listed, “none.”

INDIANA PAPER

The Indiana researchers, including Dr. Shaun Grannis of the Regenstrief Institute, combed statewide testing and vaccination data as well as medical records to match individuals to compare incidence of infection, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths….crunched data from between Nov. 29, 2020, and Feb. 9, 2022.

The researchers estimated the incidence of COVID-19 was higher among the vaccinated when compared with the unvaccinated but naturally immune. Six months after the index date—30 days after an initial infection or 30 days after a vaccination—the cumulative infection rate was 6.7 percent among the vaccinated and just 2.9 percent among the previously infected…

“Interestingly, at least in the study population and at the time of this analysis, natural immunity appears more effective in preventing new infections, a finding that is also reported in an earlier observational study,” the researchers said, pointing to an April paper from Israeli researchers…

The paper was published by the American Journal of Public Health, which is the publication of the American Public Health Association. No funding sources were listed.