In fact, you're likely to be immune for life, as is the case with recovery from many infectious agents — once you've had the disease and recovered, you're immune, most likely for life.

The evidence is strong and promising, and should be welcome and comforting news to a public that has spent the last year in a panic over SARS-CoV-2. Big surprise (not) that this message is not being shared by our public health authorities! The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — the foremost agency tasked with protecting Americans' health and safety — refuses to get the word out.

Instead, they're still encouraging those who have probable natural COVID-19 immunity to get vaccinated, even while admitting that it's rare to get sick again if you've already had COVID-19.2 The most obvious reason is that it would conflict with their primary objective, which is to get as many immunized with the COVID jab as possible.

They're frequently asked, "If I have already had COVID-19 and recovered, do I still need to get vaccinated with a COVID-19 shot?" Their response is that yes, you should, because "experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19."3 Increasingly, however, evidence is showing that long-lasting immunity exists.