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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by sellyme on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:48PM (#25041365)
Moving up in lethality while maintaining the same "infectiousness" still results in a real-world decrease in infection rate, as more infected hosts will die (and/or infected hosts will die more quickly), preventing them from spreading it further.
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by samatman on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:08PM (#25041864)
In the case of COVID-19, which is highly contagious, has a long latency period, and is in fact not especially fatal by the standard of diseases ending in -RS, this might be true on paper, but would be cold comfort in practice.
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