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Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta by hknapp on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:48AM (#28211164)
> We had a small chance of getting rid of covid if we had gotten nearly everyone, 90%+, vaccinated.

By small chance, you mean 0% chance, right? Variants were already spreading by the time any vaccines were available. There are also billions of people who will likely not be vaccinated within the next couple years or so.

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Re:Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta by gilbetron on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:54PM (#28214102)
We had a non-zero chance of stopping covid, even considering vaccines would take a couple of years to get to everyone, it didn't matter (much) if variants happened. The chance of zero covid comes from vaccines coming out fast enough to drop the R value below 1.0 for a significant amount of time for the virus to go away.

However, in hindsight, with animal populations being able to get infected, I think it probably was zero, although that gets well beyond my armchair "skills" ;)

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