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The Lancet Acknowledges

Not it doesn't. It published a paper. It never had a editorial position on routes of acquiring immunity to COVID infections.

The Lancet publishes research. It doesn't generally have an editorial position about the progress of the science. There are cases where it has does include and editorial statement, but the ones that I can recall are all of the form "we publish this paper because if true it is important, but the findings should be reproduced."

They did publish a paper 02465-5/fulltext)that said "Past COVID-19 infection against re-infection, symptomatic disease, and severe disease for ancestral, alpha, delta, or omicron BA.1 variants, appears to be at least as protective as two-dose vaccination with the mRNA vaccines for all vaccines and outcomes". It's a systematic review and meta-analysis of other papers. Probably a good one to read, as looking at a lot of research covers statistical outliers. (Or poor methods and controls).

Natural Immunity Superior to mRNA COVID Vaccines

Nope. That the protection from past infection is at least as protective. To be superior you also have to have less risk. And note that you can be infected and vaccinated, so they're not mutually exclusive. The superior route to protection from past infection would be to get vaccinated, and then infected. That way your infection is less serious, and you still get the protection.