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by GameOfFrowns 1655 days ago
>doesn’t necessarily bode well for the six monthly booster subscription necessary in absence of airborne transmission interrupting NPIs.

Especially considering that the current booster shots are proven to be quite ineffective against the Delta and even less against the current Omicron mutation. Seemingly all of the risk, with none of the benefit.
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croes 1655 days ago
>Especially considering that the current booster shots are proven to be quite ineffective against the Delta and even less against the current Omicron mutation. Seemingly all of the risk, with none of the benefit.

Quite the opposite. The study in South Africa showed a 70% protection against hospitalisation from Omicron, the level is even higher for Delta.

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scotty79 1655 days ago
Please check the charts at the last lage of this document https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v...

It seems that three doses can drop down your risk of infection below what being previously infected with covid, or even being infected and then vaccinated with two doses can provide.

I think we made a great mistake by not making this vaccine 3 doses from the start.

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