I agree! Another reason why VE appears to decrease might be that the ratio of unvax population with prior infection might be growing, and it's a wash between va

I agree! Another reason why VE appears to decrease might be that the ratio of unvax population with prior infection might be growing, and it's a wash between vax and post infection natural immunity. OTOH this is not an isolated data point. We have: the booster push (why?), the veteran study, the PHE data. Something doesn't add up. For whatever reasons, the observed epi VE, after all the confouding factors are accounted by reality, is fading for both infection and severe infection, though VE agains severe infection is fading at a slower rate. To the point of J&J VE against infection (the weakest of the bunch) being almost gone in 6 months. I don't have a time machine, but I'm really interested to see how the Jan 2022 VE numbers hold up across the board. Given OAS concerns (please re-read the dengue study excerpt I already quoted), near zero covid risk for kids, rapidly fading VE against infection and the general lack of long term data about covid & immune system (no time machines), what exactly is the rush to vaccinate kids against the original variant?! And why do we pretend we can just tweak vaccines to any new variant, when, while technologically we can concoct any protein we like, the immune system doesn't turn on a dime?