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Vaccines are still highly effective, just not as effective as initially expected. They reduce cases by 5-10x and death by 14-20x: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-da

by creato 5y ago

Vaccines are still highly effective, just not as effective as initially expected. They reduce cases by 5-10x and death by 14-20x: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s.... What do you think the world would have looked like over the last ~6 months without the vaccines?

version_five 5y ago
I'd look at it the other way and say what would the world be like now of we'd make a vaccine we could celebrate as successful. I want to be clear, it seems like a promising technology, I'm just suggesting we reign in the praise we heap on it until we've actually finished what we started and finished solving a problem with it. Prematurely declaring victory makes an easy target for detractors.