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The chances of hospitalization or death due to omicron are greatly reduced for individuals with two vaccines, and further reduced with a booster. Any reduction
by guspodillespie 5y ago
The chances of hospitalization or death due to omicron are greatly reduced for individuals with two vaccines, and further reduced with a booster.
Any reduction in transmission rates pushes and deflates the peak, which is important because of limited healthcare resources.
- refurb 5y agoHe agrees with point 1 (although argues young people don’t need a booster as their risk is already very low) and argues point 2 isn’t really true as the reduction in risk of transmission wanes quickly and isn’t that strong to start with when it comes to the Omnicron variant. Edit: Not sure why this submission keeps getting flagged. It’s from Vinay Prasad, Professor at UCSF and all claims are supported by data.
- Steltek 5y agoAddressed by the author here: > NOTE: This is not an argument about the benefits of vaccination for the individual— vaccines likely (and evidence shows they) still have great protection against severe disease; instead this is an argument about the effects of vaccination on symptomatic diseases, and (some good portion of) transmission. In other words, vaccines avoid hospitalization but zero Covid is not a reality.