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by guspodillespie 1622 days ago
The chances of hospitalization or death due to omicron are greatly reduced for individuals with two vaccines, and further reduced with a booster.

Any reduction in transmission rates pushes and deflates the peak, which is important because of limited healthcare resources.
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refurb 1622 days ago
He agrees with point 1 (although argues young people don’t need a booster as their risk is already very low) and argues point 2 isn’t really true as the reduction in risk of transmission wanes quickly and isn’t that strong to start with when it comes to the Omnicron variant.

Edit: Not sure why this submission keeps getting flagged. It’s from Vinay Prasad, Professor at UCSF and all claims are supported by data.

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Steltek 1622 days ago
Addressed by the author here:

> NOTE: This is not an argument about the benefits of vaccination for the individual— vaccines likely (and evidence shows they) still have great protection against severe disease; instead this is an argument about the effects of vaccination on symptomatic diseases, and (some good portion of) transmission.

In other words, vaccines avoid hospitalization but zero Covid is not a reality.

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