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>This information is interesting, but a poor basis on which to shift policy from vaccination to infecting the entire population and blessing the survivors. Onl
by daenz 5y ago
>This information is interesting, but a poor basis on which to shift policy from vaccination to infecting the entire population and blessing the survivors.
Only if we were starting from a point of nobody having been infected already. In LA, Chicago, NYC, Miami, ~50% of the population has been infected[0]. If the Israeli study is accurate, then all of those people should be considered as immune as vaccinated, therefore not requiring any additional vaccination. That should absolutely shift policy wrt vaccinations.
0. https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/one-three-americans-already-had-covid-19-end-2020 https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
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- lamontcg 5y agoThose populations may not be comparable, the headline numbers are from people who were PCR tested to be positive, the population-wide studies are based on seropositivity and modelling. The Israeli study explicitly calls out that it may be undersampling asymptomatic infections.