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>...estimated 0% (not a typo) vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection after 20 weeks That's also extremely misleading. The greatest vaccine benefit
by unclebucknasty 5y ago
>...estimated 0% (not a typo) vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection after 20 weeks
That's also extremely misleading. The greatest vaccine benefit is not elimination of merely symptomatic infection, but to reduce serious symptoms (i.e. hospitalization) and death.
Here's what the study says about that:
Meanwhile, BNT162b2-induced protection against hospitalization and death appears to persist with hardly any waning for at least six months following the second dose.
- walterbell 5y agoIt's good that the CDC updated their definition of vaccine to make it clear to the general population that non-sterilizing Covid vaccines provide "protection" and not "immunity", to reset the expectations of vaccine recipients who may have believed that Covid vaccination provided immunity or stopped transmission.
- bsaul 5y agoIt’s unfortunate however that public policies in most western countries haven’t adapted to that fact yet (which has been a serious hypothesis since the beginning). they still encourage risk-free patients to get vaccinated in the hope of herd immunity. It’s just sad.