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I don't believe it's a matter of 100% guarantee of immunity. The current covid vaccines are designed to prevent severe infection, NOT prevent infection. My un
by curmudgeon22 5y ago
I don't believe it's a matter of 100% guarantee of immunity. The current covid vaccines are designed to prevent severe infection, NOT prevent infection. My understanding is that the current vaccines ~95% efficacy is against severe infection, but we don't actually know what the efficacy against infection is.
If you compare this to say smallpox vaccine, it is 95% effective at preventing infections.
https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/7022/ https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/7022/
- krona 5y agoThe 95% efficacy statistic was ultimately a positive PCR test, i.e. infection or a 'case' of the disease.
- curmudgeon22 5y agoYes, but only symptomatic folks were tested.