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>> The problem is that vaccines don't protect society unless a critical-mass of people are vaccinated. I'm having a harder and harder time believing this (that
by temp0826 5y ago
>> The problem is that vaccines don't protect society unless a critical-mass of people are vaccinated.
I'm having a harder and harder time believing this (that herd immunity is actually possible) considering that the vaccine does nothing to stop it from spreading.
(Am vaxed and caught it, fwiw)
- ravi-delia 5y agoDefine nothing, there's definitely some effect from vaccination. It's just much less than the protection from sickness, which is in turn less than the protection from death.
- shepherdjerred 5y ago> considering that the vaccine does nothing to stop it from spreading. Completely untrue. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4
- nomel 5y ago"Stop" and "slow" are very different things and cannot be used interchangeable, if you want to keep your point clear. And, Omicron is not Delta. Omicron is the current pandemic. Vaccines slows the spread, but keeps its R0 well into the "everyone on earth will probably get it" range.