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This week on Corona port, Noah baker and galloway talk about super immunity. Super immunity is a mixture of vaccination and a prior infection. People with hybert immunity are generating far higher levels of ant bodies against the virus. The anti bodies they're generating seem to be doing a better job at blocking a diverse corono virus parients. There's some new unknows, and we've got a vaxine.

People that have recovered from COVID are seeing stronger immune responses after vaccination than those that never contracted the virus. Researchers are now racing to unpick what is behind this powerful 'hybrid immunity'. In this episode of Coronapod, we discuss a series of studies which are offering up some possibile explanations, and ask how this might inform publish health policy in the future.

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