Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by input_sh on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:59AM (#24895665)

Even if we vaccinate every vulnerable group, no vaccine has 100% success rate. That's why every vaccine we ever had relied on a huge majority of people having it to prevent the virus from reaching those whose vaccine failed.

Not to mention that we already know about long term side effects that have nothing to do with a specific age group, and that there's a chance of re-infection.

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by rhino369 on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:19AM (#24897091)

Sure but it would reduce the number of deaths by a lot.

If we just vaccinated 65+ year olds, we'd cut deaths by 80X%, where X is the effectivelness of the vaccine. Even if the vaccine was only 80% effective, that's still 65% reduction.

Add in people with dangerous conditions, heart conditions, cancer, morbidly obese, etc., and you could probably knock it down further.

And as the percent of the population with immunity rises, the spread will slow quite a bit.

We don't need heard immunity to open back up.

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