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I looked at those trials and it did not appear to include people with prior exposure to sars-cov-2. What is a person who already had it supposed to make of it?
by peteradio 5y ago
I looked at those trials and it did not appear to include people with prior exposure to sars-cov-2. What is a person who already had it supposed to make of it? That's great that it has high effectiveness for people without a history of exposure but its not some conspiracy to doubt its effectiveness if you already had the disease and its turned out that intuition was largely correct.
- civilized 5y agoI don't have the data about incremental vaccine effectiveness for people who already had COVID. I don't think anyone does. Why are you so confident that the vaccines aren't effective for people who previously had it? It's not a one-and-done disease like chickenpox. More exposure = more immune system training.
- peteradio 5y agoSorry, I'm not suggesting that vaccines don't have a positive impact on hospitilzations/deaths for a person who has already had covid, just that its quite marginal, especially for younger populations. I'm reasonably young with young children who already had exposure, it concerned me that the messaging did not seem to be very nuanced regarding the relative risks by age and prior exposure. It very much felt like my children were going to be force vaccinated with a drug that would not benefit them. I do believe if people were not voicing their concerns we would have seen that come to pass. I struggle to see the conspiratorial thinking involved here.
- civilized 5y agoI see what you're saying. My son got the vaccine because he had no prior exposure as far as we know. The other one is too young and my understanding (from NYT) is that the companies are really struggling to show effectiveness below age 5. Personally we experienced little pressure to get our kids vaxxed but I don't know what your experience was like.