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by akkawwakka 1650 days ago
This should be a surprise to no one. The vaccines are designed to prevent serious disease, hospitalization, and death.

Unfortunately the media has harmfully claimed that the vaccines are “less effective against Omicron” because of the reduction of prevention against any symptomatic disease… which they were never designed to prevent.

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> which they were never designed to prevent

But that they did reasonably well for the previous variants, and we could greatly benefit from that