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Antibody-dependent enhancement. Anyone raising concern was labelled an anti-vaxxer. Hubris is always punished.

• anakaine 5y ago
  This is not evidence of a more severe outcome for the vaccinated, to be fair. The vaccinated have coverage across all major variants, with Omicrons coverage being questioned here. OG Covid-19, several early variants, Delta, and Omicron are all still doing the rounds. With no evidence of an increase in lethality or odds of contracting a variant with an increased lethality due to being vaccinated the body of evidence firmly sits well within the realm of "better to have coverage for most variants and partial coverage for those emerging" rather than "going in bareback, hold my popcorn!".
  • Flankk 5y ago
    What makes you think it reduces severity when breakthrough cases are more common than the unvaccinated getting sick? You're talking about data from before ADE became a problem.
    • ttyprintk 5y ago
      Because it’s not the test rate difference that’s important for wider society but the hospitalization rate. I think you’re arguing that VAERD cannot be ruled out. ADE has been known among this family of viruses for long-enough that it’s described in the process of designing vaccine concentration. Though, I’m certainly not educated enough to understand ADE let alone VAED/VAERD.