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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by nradov on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:13PM (#28701709)
This is incorrect. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but there is no reliable evidence that this reduces R(eff) below 1.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by XorNot on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:22PM (#28702165)
R(eff) lowers the higher the vaccination rate. There are some pretty obvious % targets depending on your R(eff) initial. For the initial population number it's ~90%.[1]

So no, I am in no way wrong.

[1] https://grattan.edu.au/news/race-to-80-how-we-mapped-austral...

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tunesmith on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:53PM (#28701997)
"no reliable evidence" - of course vaccination helps bring R(eff) lower. That's just the way the math works. If R(eff) is already low enough due to other mitigation, then additional vaccination helps bring it below 1. We see that all over the nation now, R(eff) rates dipping below 1 as vaccination rates increase.
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