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They’re working on it. But the original target effectiveness during vaccine development was 75%. We got lucky it was so much better against earlier strains. It’
by eli 5y ago
They’re working on it. But the original target effectiveness during vaccine development was 75%. We got lucky it was so much better against earlier strains. It’s still pretty good — about the same as an average year’s flu shot.
It’s a far cry from the apparently very popular myth that the vaccines no longer work at all.
- mike_hock 5y agoThe flu shots are some of the least effective vaccines out there. The original target effectiveness was set low because anything to nudge the R value down was better than nothing. We now know that we can do much better.
- JakeAl 5y agoFlu shots are about 40% effective.
- sharken 5y agoWhat would be interesting, would be to see flu shot efficiency and COVID shot efficiency over time. Preferably including Omicron data as well.