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I hate that phrase: "They are to be expected" I expect better. I expect a vaccine that would have saved Colin's life.
by 015a 5y ago
I hate that phrase: "They are to be expected"
I expect better. I expect a vaccine that would have saved Colin's life.
- sundvor 5y agoWith ~90% efficacy, how do you expect that to work when rolling the dice thousands of times? It's a heck of a lot better than none. And sadly people still don't care to treat Covid seriously, and nowhere near high enough vaccination rates in most places - thus no herd protection yet.
- ekianjo 5y ago> With ~90% efficacy, how do you expect that to work when rolling the dice thousands of times? The data shows we are very far from 90% efficacy with the Delta variant. > in a report released from the Ministry of Health in Israel, the effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against preventing COVID-19 infection was reported to be 39%, substantially lower than the trial efficacy of 96% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/#CR6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/#CR6
- heartbreak 5y agoIf you think the mRNA vaccines aren’t the best we can do right now, then why don’t you use that deep knowledge of vaccine development and make one yourself?
- NoGravitas 5y agoHe was 84 and had multiple myeloma, which means he was immunocompromised. If it hadn't been COVID-19, it would have been something else.
- _ea1k 5y agoI do too, but it may not be realistic to expect better on such a short time frame. Better vaccinations are being developed.