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1. This would require testing tons of people for antibody response all the time. That seems hard. We do at least have antibody tests that will test for infectio
by DannyBee 5y ago
1. This would require testing tons of people for antibody response all the time. That seems hard. We do at least have antibody tests that will test for infection vs vaccination.
2. If you are going to go this far, you'd also want the "vaccinated but had no effect" group.
The vaccine will not generate an immune response (or an effective one) in everyone, that's just how it works.
So the vaccinated group (and "breakthrough cases") include some percent of people who were vaccinated, but it didn't really do anything to them.
You'd want to know this number, because you want to know things like "how many breakthrough cases are people where the vaccine had no real effect vs people where the vaccine generated an effective antibody response, but not against this variant"
Especially because the "breakthrough" rate is small.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoOK, but if doing this subdivision well is prohibitively hard, that does not not make the article dishonest about these groups. It does not "pretend that immunity due to prior infection is due to the vaccine".
- nojokes 5y agoNot necessarily. You can also sample the subset of people.