Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ...
by ummonk on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:34PM
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Once every adult has had the chance to get vaccinated, there is no reasonable argument for lockdowns.
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Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ...
by thinkcontext on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:59PM
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Sure there is, there could be new variants that the vaccines don't protect against. The criteria for the various levels of reopening were set at the beginning. Those are what should determine the reopening according to public health experts.
Re:Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against ...
by ummonk on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:41AM
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The vaccines have proven highly effective at protecting against COVID and its highly transmissible variants, and it's unlikely that we'll see a new variant arise that exhibits sufficient immune escape to result in severe infections in vaccinated people.
The criteria for the various levels of reopening at the beginning were due the need to protect vulnerable people who did not have the opportunity to magically protect themselves by getting vaccinated.