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The number of vaccine breakthrough cases leading to deaths is rather low, but not zero. There have been hundreds of them in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/in
by comex 5y ago
The number of vaccine breakthrough cases leading to deaths is rather low, but not zero. There have been hundreds of them in the US:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-breakthrough-infections-vaccines.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-brea...
- sandworm101 5y agoIn the real world, 99.99% protection from a risk is 100%. This is medicine, not particle physics.
- wumpus 5y agoSaying 100% is a bad idea, because an endless stream of people are going to tell you it's not 100%. Look back at previous HN conversations about anyone claiming their software is 100% fault tolerant, or that their datacenter has 100% uptime.
- sandworm101 5y agoSaying anything about covid seems bad on HN. Just look at all the perfectly reasonable discussions that have been downvoted into grey status. Something organized must be happening.
- wumpus 5y agoWell, you could do your part by stopping saying 100%.
- makomk 5y agoIn the real world, the vaccines don't provide anywhere near 99.99% protection. There are some misleading stats which claim 99.9% protection, but the trouble is that they do stuff like including a whole bunch of deaths from the winter wave which ended before vaccines were generally available and ending before the recent Delta wave. Realistically you might be able to expect somewhere around 90% reduction in the risk of death which isn't nothing but also isn't close to 100%.