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"Natural Immunity" is a generated misnomer. They are misnaming acquired immunity. If you had natural immunity you never would have caught it and got sick in the first place. You acquired some immunity because you caught the virus and your body was able to generate the anti-bodies to beat it down to an insignificant level.

Why don't we have good stats (assuming any of the other stats are good) for "recovered"?

Because without specific parameters "recovered" is just too wide open a term.

How do you measure how many people got the virus and recovered without any symptoms?
How do you measure how many people got the virus and recovered without being tested and found to be positive?
How do you measure how many people got the virus and recovered without being admitted to a hospital?
How do you measure how many people got the virus, went to the hospital, got well enough to go home, but were not tracked to a "recovered" condition?

The anti-body tests we have, have proven to be even more inaccurate than the "have you got it" tests; so you can't really use their results for any metric.