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Distributing all the doses now doesn't make sense. - The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine requires a booster shot after 21 days. - The Moderna vaccine requires a boost

Distributing all the doses now doesn't make sense. - The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine requires a booster shot after 21 days. - The Moderna vaccine requires a booster shot 28 days later. If the vaccine manufacturer recommends a booster shot then that's what should be done. Then not everyone: 1) ...is at a high risk 2) ...puts others at a high risk Therefore prioritization makes sense. The success of Israel against COVID is not only due to vaccination campaign (which of course, helps) but also their ability to adapt to the current situation and mobilize against the virus. We've had enough of people fighting sanitary authorities for months. Let them do their job. Unpublishing this blog post would be a better thing to do right now.

scrollaway 6y ago
The booster shot gets you to the highest immunity but a single shot still gets you increased immunity. Several countries in europe are considering single-shot strategies, as was discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393 And yeah not everyone is high risk but getting a shot into every health care worker, teacher, every person who interacts with lots of people etc will greatly reduce the impact of the virus, which includes reducing risk to high risk people.
- 29athrowaway 6y ago
  Israel is a country with 9 million people, with a highly disciplined population that can be effectively mobilized to do practically anything. That's part of the reason they're being successful against COVID-19, rather than just vaccines alone. Vaccines help but vaccination alone will not get you to where they are now. If you want to do a country-wide campaign to encourage social distancing, masks, washing hands, etc... it's much easier to do there. For example, see how Israel erradicated Malaria and see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1chsYafMqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1chsYafMqE
  - scrollaway 6y ago
    Did you mean to reply to someone else?
turing_complete 6y ago
If the "authorities" fail or show low effectiveness, you have to criticize them and offer other solutions. That's how we make progess. By the way, other authorities run a different strategy, the UK focuses on distributing first doses. Some authorities fail completely at distributing the vaccine, like we are seeing in Europe where I am currently. Strange to see that on a page called "hacker news", some people think questioning the "authorities" is something you shouldn't do.
- 29athrowaway 6y ago
  That is why I said "sanitary authorities" instead of than political authorities. I do not care about what political authorities have to say, but I do care about what credible medical professionals in positions of authority have to say.

scrollaway 6y ago

The booster shot gets you to the highest immunity but a single shot still gets you increased immunity. Several countries in europe are considering single-shot strategies, as was discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393 And yeah not everyone is high risk but getting a shot into every health care worker, teacher, every person who interacts with lots of people etc will greatly reduce the impact of the virus, which includes reducing risk to high risk people.

29athrowaway 6y ago
Israel is a country with 9 million people, with a highly disciplined population that can be effectively mobilized to do practically anything. That's part of the reason they're being successful against COVID-19, rather than just vaccines alone. Vaccines help but vaccination alone will not get you to where they are now. If you want to do a country-wide campaign to encourage social distancing, masks, washing hands, etc... it's much easier to do there. For example, see how Israel erradicated Malaria and see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1chsYafMqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1chsYafMqE
- scrollaway 6y ago
  Did you mean to reply to someone else?

turing_complete 6y ago

If the "authorities" fail or show low effectiveness, you have to criticize them and offer other solutions. That's how we make progess. By the way, other authorities run a different strategy, the UK focuses on distributing first doses. Some authorities fail completely at distributing the vaccine, like we are seeing in Europe where I am currently. Strange to see that on a page called "hacker news", some people think questioning the "authorities" is something you shouldn't do.

29athrowaway 6y ago
That is why I said "sanitary authorities" instead of than political authorities. I do not care about what political authorities have to say, but I do care about what credible medical professionals in positions of authority have to say.