I for one is almost daily in mass commute packed like 2019, and for a month, somehow the infection rate is basically flat, the hospitalizations is flat and the death toll is flat.
The danes enjoy our vaccinated "daily freedom" instead of arguing about (likely factful) technicalities about what exactly the vaccines do and does not protect against... As a citizen daily autonomy matters more to me than the mechanisms
EDIT: the infection rate might be underrepresented as we test vastly fewer now then in the summer, as the danish gov does not care as much about infection as bad outcomes (as we cannot eradicate the virus anyways)
Denmark: ~80% adult vax rate, 6M population
NYC: ~80% adult vax rate, 9M population
Flat metrics for both
Thanks to to Denmark for their sane example.
We do have the covid-app too, but it is currently totally unused (I believe)
The app gave you a "pass" based on one of four criterias:
- some days until some months (still being determined) after positive PCR test (i.e. sick and recovered)
- some days after first vaccination until some month (TBD) after last vaccination (i.e. vaxxed)
- short time (2 or 3 days, as I remember) after a negative PCR test
- even shorter (1 or 2 days, I think) after negative quick test
But as said, I cannot think of anywhere, where I would need to prove it anymore anyways (I am fully vaxxed btw).
In a recent U.S. study of 5 million vaccinated 65+ people: 160,000 contracted Covid and 30,000 were admitted to hospital. The study estimated VE (Vaccine Effectiveness) against Delta Covid-19 infection to be 40%. This value is lower than studies with smaller population samples, and far below the claims of vaccine manufacturers, https://humetrix.com/powerpoint-vaccine.html.
The large dataset was made possible by Project Salus, https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/22...
> Project Salus — named for the Roman goddess of safety and well-being — fills that role. "We [now have] roughly about 40 to 50 different data streams coming into project Salus at the data platform layer," he said. "We have another 40 to 45 different AI models that are all running on top of the platform .."