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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by endisneigh on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:44PM (#28382233)
Per the article we already know 3-dose of Pfizer does not offer a decade of prevention. What the article states is that it offers a level of protection similar to when one first completes the two-dose regimen, so we don't have to wait a decade to know.

All we know is that an additional dose does increase your protection, but it doesn't necessarily give you a decade of protection since there were people who got the 3rd dose and still got COVID.

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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by bart_spoon on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:46PM (#28384018)
> All we know is that an additional dose does increase your protection, but it doesn't necessarily give you a decade of protection since there were people who got the 3rd dose and still got COVID.

That doesn't mean anything regarding protection longevity. There will always be instances of individuals who fail to receive immune protection from a vaccine. The vast majority of people could potentially receive years of protection with a 3rd dose, while a small group doesn't get any protection at all. That isn't specific to covid.

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Re:Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new... by endisneigh on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:02PM (#28384214)
Sure, but if you like at the data in the article it's virtually identical to the 2nd dose data.
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