Re:Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated
by refurb on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:33PM
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No one knows the herd immunity threshold for these vaccines. Based on cases of vaccinated people getting Covid infections, this is just the vaccine preventing serious infections.
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Re:Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated
by standardUser on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:57PM
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Vaccines prevent infections in the vast majority of cases, not just severe infections. Not why this misinformation keeps being spread around.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0329-COVID-19-Vacci...
Re:Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated
by refurb on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:59PM
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Your link doesn't contradict anything I said so I'm not sure why you are claiming it's "misinformation".
A 90% reduction of infection means vaccinated individuals still get infected. That's what other countries have seen as seen.[1]
300 unvaccinated COVID-19 cases in current Singapore outbreak vs 78 vaccinated
If vaccinated people still get infected (even asymptomatically or at a lower rate) then they can transmit to the unvaccinated. There is no sterilizing immunity therefore the herd immunity threshold is likely much higher than 75%. Basically if you aren't vaccinated, you aren't protected.
[1]https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-vacc...