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Re:Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioN... by hellomyguys on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:11AM (#27748028)
It could be worse. It could have gone from a 99.9% to 99.1% in preventing hospitalization. That would be an 9x higher chance of hospitalization!
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Re:Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioN... by krona on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:23AM (#27748156)
That's the difference between extended lockdown periods and normality in many countries.
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Re:Israel data reportedly shows efficacy drop of Pfizer-BioN... by kurthr on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:35AM (#27749178)
I think you're confusing population wide death rates with post infection hospitalization rates. There's about 10x between death and hospitalization and there is about a 3-10x difference between population vs infection (for many countries 10-33% is a reasonable range of infection... except for China/Taiwan/Korea which are in the <1% range).
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