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You have your answer. It’s undefined. Trying to get any other reassurance beyond that is irrational. Pfizer vaccine is roughly 40-60% efficacy against delta va
by farmerstan 5y ago
You have your answer. It’s undefined. Trying to get any other reassurance beyond that is irrational.
Pfizer vaccine is roughly 40-60% efficacy against delta variant infection. But it should prevent hospitalization. “Mild” infection still means you could be out for many days or weeks.
Check the positivity rate for the areas where you’re going. If it’s high and increasing I would cancel, because you might run out of hospital beds. If it’s declining then mask up and be conservative.
- noduerme 5y agoWell... I don't think the value is undefined. For example, if I could find out that this test assayed the same responses as used by Pfizer to determine long-term T-cell immunity from the vaccines, then I would know I had probably lost any immunity. If on the other hand most T-cell tests out there don't pick up vaccine-induced protection, then there's some chance the vax is still effective for me. Masking and being conservative is a foregone conclusion, the issues are whether or not to (a) cancel the trip, and (b) try to get a third shot. [edit] Also, this goes to whether I'm immune-compromised, if in fact my system didn't properly respond to the shot. In that case, I can't count on the low rate of hospitalization among vaccine recipients and I need to be more than just careful.
- noduerme 5y agoBy the way - the more I've thought about your shitty answer, the more it strikes me as not only useless and asinine, but actually petty and malicious. I asked for an expert opinion. You shouldn't have responded.