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   I'm fully vaccinated and I also had COVID. Do I need a booster?   
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   Some undetermined share of those people are also vaccinated, meaning   
   they now possess what scientists call hybrid immunity. This is what   
   happens when your immune system has essentially done both a dress   
   rehearsal of fending off the virus -- courtesy of the vaccine -- and a   
   real life performance -- thanks to the virus.   
      
   So if you've already had a symptomatic case of COVID-19, do you really   
   need a booster?   
      
   It's probably not a shock that scientists still aren't entirely sure.   
   Boosters haven't been available all that long for most Americans, and   
   the studies to understand just how necessary they are for everyone --   
   let alone those who've been infected and vaccinated -- still need to   
   be done.   
      
   But scientists say their best guess is that, by all accounts, people   
   with hybrid immunity already have better immunity than vaccinated   
   people who never got COVID-19 or people who got COVID-19 but not the   
   vaccine.   
      
   "It's fair to say that your immunity is likely going to be stronger so   
   that the chance of getting sick, especially with the delta variant, is   
   very, very low," says Dr. Duane Wesemann, an immunologist at Brigham   
   and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/24/1058743263/   
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