3 ms·
It's worse than that: in terms of preventing infection, vaccine effectiveness drops to 16% after about 6 months [1] (see the graph on the final page). Severe d
by ibeckermayer 5y ago
It's worse than that: in terms of preventing infection, vaccine effectiveness drops to 16% after about 6 months [1] (see the graph on the final page).
Severe disease infection seems to last longer, but a natural hypothesis from this data is that it would fall off as well, just delayed by some unknown amount of time. Unfortunately, we probably won't find that out in any transparent way, since Israel's ministry of health [conspicuously] just announced that they'll no longer be including the relevant information in their daily data releases [2].
[1] https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-efficacy-safety-follow-up-committee/he/files_publications_corona_two-dose-vaccination-data.pdf https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-efficacy-safet...
[2]https://twitter.com/alexberenson/status/1420704424335495174?s=21 https://twitter.com/alexberenson/status/1420704424335495174?...