[angelzen]

Given that boosters are an attempt to counteract waning vaccine vaccine effectiveness, there are two fundamental questions:

1. Do boosters work at all?

2. Do boosters wane over time, just like the original shots did?

They answer only 1. They didn't even attempt to shed light on 2, which is a serious letdown. Given known waning vaccine effectiveness, at a minimum claims on booster effectiveness should be bracketed by time since boosting event.

[kelnos]

How could they answer #2? Boosters have only been a thing for, what, a couple months now?

[angelzen]

"We've measured the position of iron balls thrown at different speeds from a 56m tall tower and found they were 90% likely to be found flying in the air."

This is technically correct, yet fundamentally misleading. The same statement, bracketed by time since triggering event:

"We've measured the position of iron balls thrown at different speeds from a 56m tall tower, 0.1 seconds after throwing, and found they were 90% likely to be found flying in the air."

Even better, show the plot of position by time, or at least clarify you are merely doing a point-in-time measurement. Time is a fundamental component of the vaccine effectiveness equation.

[whb07]

Israel is effectively forcing everyone to be at the 4th booster by now.

Guess how things are looking? Ready to take the 5th booster shortly.

Lol, “never again” and Nuremberg code are just words easily forgotten.

[tguvot]

Israel is still doing 3rd shot (aka booster). Nobody forcing there 4th booster

[ahartmetz]

> Lol, “never again” and Nuremberg code are just words easily forgotten

Being a bit over-dramatic here, aren't we? Never mind factually wrong about

> Israel is effectively forcing everyone to be at the 4th booster by now.

How do you come up with this stuff?

[hedgehog]

It hasn't been long enough, they will probably do another paper in six months once that data is available.