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The alternative interpretation is that New Zealand's lockdowns avoided all the previous waves (which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US, for examp
by Imnimo 5y ago
The alternative interpretation is that New Zealand's lockdowns avoided all the previous waves (which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US, for example), but did not avoid the Omicron wave. So far, NZ has only reported 65 covid deaths. That number will surely rise with the current wave, but I think it's a wild exaggeration to say that they have had "just as much of a covid problem as the rest of the world".
- sjg007 5y agoRight but vaccination should mitigate omicron... I guess really this is the test of that.
- robbedpeter 5y agoVaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. It protects you from serious illness and death if/when you get it. The whole transmission protection meme needs to die. It has a trivial effect at the population level wrt the spread of covid.
- ceejayoz 5y ago> Vaccination didn't and doesn't reduce transmission. This is false. It does not stop transmission. It does reduce it. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/the-new-omicron-subvariant-is-more-contagious-but-vaccinated-people-are-less-likely-to-spread-it-study-finds.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/31/the-new-omicron-subvariant-i...
- EdwardDiego 5y agoIt does reduce transmission, I was reading a research paper out of the UK, and while vaccinated people who got infected hit the same peak viral load as someone unvaccinated, they were at the peak viral load for a far shorter period of time. I can try to locate the link if you're interested.
- throwaway6532 5y agoIt doesn't make transmission impossible. It makes it less probable, which most definitely does reduce transmission. To say "Vaccination doesn't reduce transmission" is to say "Vaccination has no effect on the R value". It clearly does.