| > the vaccines didn't prevent transmission Tell me you don't know how vaccines work without telling me you don't know how vaccines work. Preventing transmission is a nice to have, not a must have. Less serious symptoms (which can include, but are absolutely not limited to, death, not for Covid not for anything else) are the requirement for them to be useful. > CDC's Provincetown study Tell me you don't know Baysean statistics etc. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/08/cdc-re... -- Comments like yours are why I wrote the other day: "I think people expect cancer cures to be as effective as vaccines really are, while also expecting vaccines (and antibiotics) to be as effective as a Potion of Cure Disease in Skyrim." |
The USA Today article you link is just a lot of the usual verbal gymnastics that was rolled out at the time: they still work against severe outcomes, sure lots of vaccinated people are getting infected but you have to use Bayesian analysis and compare against the proportion of the base population that was vaccinated, no vaccine is 100% effective so let's pretend these ones are just as good as the ones that are 99% effective, etc.