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Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by ddlutz on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:51PM (#27157396)
The vaccines are still quite effective after the first dose, and, I'm saying this without being a researcher in this area, should be enough to flatten the curve.

"The Moderna vaccine has been shown to have an efficacy of approximately 92 per cent in protecting against COVID-19, starting 14 days after the first dose." - https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-mod...

Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by aledalgrande on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:10PM (#27157685)
Wow that's impressive, I thought it was ~50% after the first dose. I guess it's like ML, to get the last percentage points you need exponential effort?
Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by williamstein on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:27PM (#27157918)
You might be thinking of this paper about very extensive data from Israel: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765

One conclusion a friend of mine wrote about this is "One other surprising thing which is not obvious, but is made very clear from the results, is that it really takes real time for this vaccine to get effective. It only starts becoming truly useful after 2 weeks, but even then keeps getting better with time. This effect is one reason why there was a very real lag between when Israel got vaccinated at a very high percentage of population and when the cases started freefalling (2-3 weeks+). "

Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by mikelward on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:13PM (#27157726)
It's 50% if you start counting immediately, before the first dose has had time to work.
Re:Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune resp... by marcosdumay on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:35PM (#27158030)
> I guess it's like ML

It's very like simulated annealing.