The findings were "a huge surprise" because they challenge the current thinking about hybrid immunity to the virus, said Dawn Bowdish, senior author of the study and Canada Research Chair in Aging and Immunity at McMaster University in Hamilton.
If they were a "huge surprise", you might consider a different profession.
For years we heard about how "it's not just the flu". What MD in their right mind would ever suggest that being repeatedly infected with a flu virus, several times per year with different variants, would protect against being infected again and again, and make it all magically mild?
We literally have a flu season every year, it's super famous and a big thing in healthcare because they do a vaccination campaign. Every. Single. Year. As if a virus that is even more contagious and mutates faster would just magically become harmless and die out as background noise. Good grief this is steak-slapping-to-the-face foolish.
And wow is this messaging going to bite everyone in the ass if there is ever a really bad flu pandemic, which has long been considered the worst-case scenario for a really dangerous pandemic. Even though, well, we just had one kill over 20M+, disabled tens of millions more, and it's as if it never even happened, even though it's still happening.
Quick suggestion, but:
Hybrid immunity, which occurs when people have been vaccinated against the virus and have also been infected, is believed to provide increased protection against reinfection and serious illness, according to many public health, infectious disease and immunology experts.
Don't believe in nonsense. Or believe at all. The precautionary principle literally stands against this absurd belief, it was always complete BS. Medicine should not be decided on beliefs, and certainly not at the public health level. Although we sadly know better here.
In computer science, we didn't "believe" in Y2K. We understood it. Dealt with it. And there's a similar issue with the year 2038. We will deal with it. Because we are serious professionals who don't "believe" in stuff. We investigate, analyze and thoroughly work out solutions.
This winter is going to be really something. Even if governments attempt measures, there are going to be people recklessly going around infecting people on purpose, and it will not be possible to put up restrictions or laws against it. What a mess they created with all their hopium and false beliefs about illness.
