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"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said th

by lsllc 5y ago

"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said the vast majority were also reporting symptoms. Seven people were reported hospitalized." Wow.

WheelsAtLarge 5y ago
As long as people won't embrace vaccines as a way to prevent the spread of COVID, this is our future. We'll have constant outbreaks. It's sad, we have a solution but since we can't get consensus on its benefits, it's not as effective as it could be. I suspect that the only way that it will go away is that it will become part of the childhood vaccine regiment and slowly it will disappear but that's a long way away.
- AndrewBissell 5y ago
  Did you RTFA? It's about an outbreak that occurred among many, many vaccinated people, who subsequently exhibited high viral load and came down with symptomatic illness, in a state with a 74% vaccination rate. There is zero evidence that all this is occurring because the vaccination rate is at some arbitrary level less than 100%. Gibraltar and Iceland have also had outbreaks despite very high vaccination rates. Sorry the vaccines aren't the miracle elixir they told you they were.
  - WheelsAtLarge 5y ago
    Herd immunity is the biggest benefit of vaccines since vaccines aren't 100% effective, no vaccine is. The Smallpox vaccine is 95+ effective and loses effectiveness over time. Yet, we don't see Smallpox outbreaks. It's all related to herd immunity. The COVID vaccines have a high immunity rate but they will only stop outbreaks, if the majority of people will use them. If we don't act together, it's going to take a long time for that to happen.
    - salawat 5y ago
      Fully immunized individuals had viral breakthrough. Herd immunity means nothing in that case.

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"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said th

by lsllc 5y ago

WheelsAtLarge 5y ago
As long as people won't embrace vaccines as a way to prevent the spread of COVID, this is our future. We'll have constant outbreaks. It's sad, we have a solution but since we can't get consensus on its benefits, it's not as effective as it could be. I suspect that the only way that it will go away is that it will become part of the childhood vaccine regiment and slowly it will disappear but that's a long way away.
- AndrewBissell 5y ago
  Did you RTFA? It's about an outbreak that occurred among many, many vaccinated people, who subsequently exhibited high viral load and came down with symptomatic illness, in a state with a 74% vaccination rate. There is zero evidence that all this is occurring because the vaccination rate is at some arbitrary level less than 100%. Gibraltar and Iceland have also had outbreaks despite very high vaccination rates. Sorry the vaccines aren't the miracle elixir they told you they were.
  - WheelsAtLarge 5y ago
    Herd immunity is the biggest benefit of vaccines since vaccines aren't 100% effective, no vaccine is. The Smallpox vaccine is 95+ effective and loses effectiveness over time. Yet, we don't see Smallpox outbreaks. It's all related to herd immunity. The COVID vaccines have a high immunity rate but they will only stop outbreaks, if the majority of people will use them. If we don't act together, it's going to take a long time for that to happen.
    - salawat 5y ago
      Fully immunized individuals had viral breakthrough. Herd immunity means nothing in that case.