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It is more about I see reports of increasing number of breakthrough infections in Israel. https://trialsitenews.com/breakthrough-infections-continue-to-rise-in
by 13years 5y ago
It is more about I see reports of increasing number of breakthrough infections in Israel.
https://trialsitenews.com/breakthrough-infections-continue-to-rise-in-israel-as-authorities-work-to-secure-third-vaccine-dose/ https://trialsitenews.com/breakthrough-infections-continue-t...
There is a lot of discussion about these vaccines being leaky ( they don't stop transmission ). Therefore the whole premise on which the pandemic response is based is flawed. We are not on a path to elimination.
- thechao 5y agoA vaccine, a mask, and social distancing reduce the probability of getting sick. In particular, a vaccine does not make you immune, like some sort of cartoon superhero. Instead, a vaccine dramatically improves the response time of your immune system to infection. If you’re surrounded by the infected, you’re gonna get sick. If we had high rates of vaccination plus dedicated masking & distancing we could kill this virus. Just like we eradicated smallpox.
- 13years 5y agoWe didn't have leaky vaccines for smallpox. These vaccines work substantially different than previous generation vaccines. How do you explain covid still spreading in Gibraltar which is 100% vaccinated? How do you explain Sweden which has had the least intervention and yet now has one of the best outcomes?
- thechao 5y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted; for sure, one issue that I see skipped over is what we called “competence” — HIV is incompetent, whereas flu is competent: regardless of transmissivity (Re), you can ask how easily a virus infects. HIV rarely infects; flu infects quite well. It might be that COVID is supercompetent. That might explain the “breakthroughs” you’re reading about.