Reacción a "When can I receive the third dose if I have recently been infected?"

It should be noted that this infection would be the equivalent of receiving a third, but more complete, dose. This is because with vaccines our body produces an immune response against the S protein of the virus, but with infection our body is exposed to all the antigens of the virus and not only the S protein.

Given this and the fact that omicron is a new variant about which we do not yet know much, it might be best not to re-vaccinate newly infected people so quickly, to wait a few months to see how the pandemic evolves and to assess the protection that the infection confers on vaccinated people who have just been infected.

In addition, during this time it is possible that updated vaccines against the new variants may become available. We must not forget that we are using vaccines designed against the variant that appeared in Wuhan and during the course of the pandemic the virus has accumulated a significant number of mutations.