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It's definitely not doing "nothing". The vaccines are reliably reducing the severity of infection as you pointed out, and also reducing the duration where someo
by arcbyte 5y ago
It's definitely not doing "nothing". The vaccines are reliably reducing the severity of infection as you pointed out, and also reducing the duration where someone infected will infect others, thus reducing R value, thus applying significant friction to the spread.
It's not the panacea we might have expected, but I think we all misunderstood vaccines from the get-go.
- bleuchase 5y agoYou didn’t get the memo that this was a lifetime subscription service?
- arcticbull 5y agoYou mean like a flu shot? And Tdap? Oh no. Anyways. This assessment is nether particularly interesting nor at all unprecedented. If it ends up being with us indefinitely, then a COVID booster will simply be incorporated into the annual flu shot.
- stathibus 5y agoWe didn't "misunderstand", we were sold optimism based on incomplete data. Don't confuse bad information for a literacy problem.