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- The vaccine hasn't been evaded. The efficacy has been slightly reduced. - Not all vaccines need be quite so targeted. - Naturally acquired immunity can also
by jonnycomputer 5y ago
- The vaccine hasn't been evaded. The efficacy has been slightly reduced.
- Not all vaccines need be quite so targeted.
- Naturally acquired immunity can also be evaded.
- mythrwy 5y agoIf a person is infected, it has been evaded. Period.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoDefine what it means for a person to be infected.
- kristjansson 5y agoEvaded implies, to me, systematic failure of an intervention i.e. the probability of adverse outcome is equal for treated and untreated. If that probability is still lower than without the intervention, it has been eroded, not evaded. In the case of the vaccine in particular, some level of breakthrough infection is expected, so one case of such is unsurprising