Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al...
by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:32AM
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> The COVID vaccines are some of the most effective vaccines ever invented.
I didn’t know that. Do you have a source that shows efficacy over 45% after 8 months? I couldn’t find one.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al...
by orra on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:09PM
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That's an oddly specific ask. The vaccines are absolutely fantastic in the short term, and there's credible evidence indicating the vaccine protection is long term, by analogy with how other vaccines work.
See e.g. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/141602012829108224... and https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Also worth noting, see scary stories about vaccine efficacy dropping (coinciding with alpha being replaced by delta)? Turns out the efficacy recovers afterwards. See https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143849966572136858.... Other real world studies show robust protection in the medium term, see https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143995133263551692....
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al...
by __blockcipher__ on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:08PM
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The efficacy is “recovering” because the vaccinated are acquiring natural immunity. The way you / sailorrooscout present it obscures that simple fact.
Ain't nothing disingenuous from me. The COVID vaccines are some of the most effective vaccines ever invented.
Turns out, if you were the only vaccinated person in a house against smallpox, the efficacy was only 60-something percent. But vaccination also prevents you spreading to others, not just getting infected—so when everybody in a house was vaccinated, the efficacy rose to around 95%.
That's not unlike the COVID vaccines.