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Yes they do. The data still show pretty good protection against severe consequences from Omicron for boosted people, even despite the vaccines not being as amaz
by jkaplowitz 5y ago
Yes they do. The data still show pretty good protection against severe consequences from Omicron for boosted people, even despite the vaccines not being as amazingly effective against Omicron as they were against earlier variants. This is especially true for largely young and healthy populations such as the Stanford student body.
Some of them may still catch and spread Omicron, true. But overall far fewer will than without the three doses of vaccination, and those that do catch it will tend to have far briefer and milder symptoms than otherwise. It's still a big help to both the vaccinated/boosted students and all of their close contacts in the dense community that is a university.
- elzbardico 5y agoData from who? Because the population data from South Africa and Denmark with hugely different levels of vaccination point to omicron being mild regardless of vaccine protection. And frankly, unless we started RCTing the hell of it, population wide data is the only thing that allow us to infer any conclusions right now.
- jkaplowitz 5y agoFor example, in Canada and the US, the unvaccinated are hugely overrepresented in ICUs now, including in areas where Omicron is dominant. Most of the initial reports I think you're citing were preliminary when Omicron was new and hospitalization data (which is a lagging indicator) hadn't yet caught up.
- zarzavat 5y agoProtection is not super relevant for young students who are not at risk. It also seems unlikely that the booster will slow down the spread all that much if even two doses of the vaccine have low efficacy.