Has natural immunity to covid been proven yet?

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I've heard rumours of people having existing immunity to covid but I'm beginning to wonder as I've worked in a care home for the last 18 months through many major outbreaks and I've never knowingly had it. I've also been in a university setting since September. My care home currently has around 8 positive residents and I feel like surely my luck must be running out? There are three of us at work who've never had it and I know they haven't always been 100% careful, they've even worked there longer than me through the very first wave when PPE was virtually none existent. I haven't particularly avoided restaurants or shops and I've visited London and been on the tube etc. I am double but not triple vaccinated. I managed to catch a nasty cold a few weeks ago and I thought how did that get me if covid hasn't despite being exposed on many occasions?

Yes, it's a thing. Possibly cross immunity to other coronaviruses.

I’m sure it must be possible.

DH and 2 DC have had corona (all at different times) and whilst I did make some effort to distance from DH when he had it, when the 2 DC had it we isolated together and have tested negative throughout.

Yes, natural immunity is a thing. I just find that in the UK and other countries where the vaccine is being pushed heavily, there is a hesitancy about publishing most reports / info / data on natural immunity for fear it will discourage the vaccine. Of course natural immunity exists and works well for most people. I've never had a flu jab and never had the flu. Never had a covid vaccine and not had covid yet as far as I know. I honestly don't know how I've not managed to catch covid throughout the run up to and after Christmas. I'm always very careful, And wear a mask, wash my hands, sanitise and keep my distance if I can. But the mall where we were over the weekend and the restaurants and fun fair were packed! Like I was anxious with all the people around, many maskless. It was heaving, people bumping into me, etc. No idea how I've not had it yet, unless the cold I had a month ago (which I kept testing negative for) was actually covid

Forgot to post this link which credits vaccines and NATURAL immunity in SA as a reason for how mild omicron has been.

Ugh FFS - the link!! www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/south-africa-says-vaccines-and-natural-immunity-are-limiting-latest-covid-wave

John Campbell talks about T cell immunity in some vaccines and natural immunity appearing to be comparable in latest - small, not yet peer-reviewed, SA study.

Funnily enough in my care home omicron is anything but a mild version and we have sent more people to hospital and is spreading faster than the outbreaks before. It seems to be attacking very fast and people have ended up in hospital within hours of a positive lateral flow.

In the Guardian article it means previous infection as natural immunity, not some pre existing immunity with no prior exposure, which is thought to be possible.

Dsis, has possibly got it. She has had a lot of exposure but she is hasn't any positive test.

She was an in patient in a hospital, dm got covid. My other dsis that lived with them tested positive in the summer.

The day before I tested positive, we had lunch together.

She tests regularly but she hasn't had a positive test yet.

I heard dbro tested positive and she got negative lft as usual. She only dose pcr when she needs it for hospital appointments and when/if she gets symptoms.