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With ~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'

With ~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