Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
by MatteoFrigo on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:38PM
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The PHE report measures both antibodies from natural immunity, and antibodies from (vaccine or natural infection or both). (They don't have a vaccine-only measure.) The former is in the 20% range, depending on age. The latter is in the 97%+ range, again depending on age, reaching essentially 100% for older people.
The big caveat is that the sample population consists of blood donors, which may or may not be representative of the overall population.
Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
by lamontcg on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:42PM
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Are there any under-12 kids in the blood donors?
And yes blood donors aren't representative of the general population due to selection effects.
Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
by MatteoFrigo on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:46PM
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You can read the report, but the blood donor population is 17 years or older.
The result of the report is that some form of immunity exists in 97%+ of the blood donors at least 17 years old, in the UK.
Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England
by lamontcg on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:39PM
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And blood donors are either socially responsible (probably vaccinated) or economically disadvantaged (probably exposed).
That is almost certainly wrong. Vaccine uptake in under-12 is 0% and vaccine uptake in young adults is low. There's no way to make those kinds of seroprevalence numbers work.