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by jjeaff 1688 days ago
The current covid vaccines are some of the most efficacious vaccines we have ever had. Even with efficacy waning due to variants, they are still very effective.

And no, not all vaccines prevent infection. It has long been well understood in immunology that some vaccines do not prevent infection but rather poor outcomes.

The vaccine reduces level and length of infectivity by anywhere between 50% and 80% depending on which study and which variant.

The anti COVID vaccine rhetoric is directly responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands. And it may yet lead to many more.

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Then why are they not working in places with high vaccination rates? Take Israel for example.

Oh, it would have been much worse if they weren’t vaccinated?

I guess we’ll just have to take the experts word for it...

Except that Israel study of like 2 million people showed that natural immunity was something like 7-16x more effective than the vaccine.

Hmm...