Senator Bill Cassidy is expressing concern that federal health officials are not looking into how long one can expect to remain naturally immune to COVID-19 after getting it. He believes it’s due to incompetence on the part of such agencies as the CDC and the NIH. “We could know, within a ballpark of specific ages how long we expect it to last, just as we do with the vaccine, they’ve chosen not to know,” says Cassidy.
Cassidy says the CDC has not really done a great job with the COVID crisis, critical of the agency’s director who he says is running the operation via ZOOM from home.
He theorizes on why the CDC is not plunging into trying to determine a person’s natural immunity to COVID after contracting the virus and surviving it saying “there are some things they don’t want to send a mixed message, but the American people are smart enough to know, wait a minute, I’ve been previously infected, it gives me some immunity, tell me how much so I can gauge my risk, and they won’t do it.”
Just like investigating crime, an effort should be underway to determine how much people are protected from the coronavirus by way of natural immunity. “The best investigation whether it’s a police officer or a scientist, what do I not know, let’s move there. We know that infection gives you immunity. We don’t know how long it lasts. We should be moving in that direction,” according to Cassidy.