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by simonh 1656 days ago
Oh, it 'just' saves your life. Oh well, if that's all...
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Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes...

Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting also to not that we don't even knows why it does that:

> The reason for the efficacy of the new mRNA vaccines is not clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Efficacy

Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities? That’s certainly not the experience here I’m the UK. They seem to reduce the death and serious illness rate in otherwise healthy people just fine.
> Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities?

How do you draw that conclusion? I never said that. Vaccines work across the board. But to illustrate an extreme, they do practically nothing to kids. For 80+ year olds they're miracle drugs.