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Where I live teachers/in-classroom workers who are unvaccinated are tested 4x per month and vaccinated are tested 1x. You can draw your own conclusions.
by TheBlight 5y ago
Where I live teachers/in-classroom workers who are unvaccinated are tested 4x per month and vaccinated are tested 1x. You can draw your own conclusions.
- alex_c 5y agoThat unvaccinated people are higher risk of getting and spreading Covid? I agree, although I'm not sure what is the significance of the 4:1 ratio. Ontario's numbers suggest a risk ratio closer to 7:1 or 8:1 right now.
- TheBlight 5y agoOk clearly you don't want to discuss this honestly if you want to hand-wave away the fact that unvaccinated people have much stricter testing requirements and as a consequence are tested substantially more often.
- alex_c 5y agoNo you are right, reported cases alone can't tell the full picture. Mandatory testing can skew the numbers and probably undercounts vaccinated people. Same if vaccinated people are significantly more likely to be asymptomatic and therefore have no reason to voluntarily go get tested (but if that is the case, it brings us back to "pandemic of the unvaccinated" to some extent). The breakdown is similar on weekends, holidays, etc which suggests that mandatory testing does not skew the numbers significantly in Ontario at least. But as I said: reported cases blah blah, they paint a fairly clear picture to me but there is a lot of complexity there. What about ICU numbers?
- TheBlight 5y agoIf you're interested in my opinion on efficacy wrt severe outcomes please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460959