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I'm interested to know where Germany got that narrative, because nowhere else had it. The conversation in the USA and elsewhere is quite binary because what the
by native_samples 5y ago
I'm interested to know where Germany got that narrative, because nowhere else had it. The conversation in the USA and elsewhere is quite binary because what the "experts" said was binary. In December 2020 Fauci was saying:
"We know for sure it's very, very good, 94 percent, 95 percent in protecting you against clinically recognizable disease, and almost a 100 percent in protecting you for severe disease."
We know for sure it has 95% protection against disease. As recently as July the world was being told that the vaccines can prevent COVID-19:
https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2021-07/Preprint_Post_Hoc_Publication_Statement_VF.pdf https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2021-07/Preprint_Post_Hoc_P...
"remains highly efficacious in preventing COVID-19"
"has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019"
Clearly those statements were wrong and they didn't realize it, despite presenting these claims with extremely high levels of confidence. There certainly wasn't any notion of "we have no idea, gotta try to find out lol".