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Re:Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 2... by gus_massa on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:48AM (#28799925)
In spite I disagree with his opinion (see for example [1]) I think it's important to keep the discussion as open as possible. The data in the article is real, and it's important to discuss it. I prefer to have a discussion about why the 20% in the submission title is a bad metric. Is it a bad metric? Why? (It looks like a result of a study that is not a RCT. It may be a good study, but I'm getting tired of reading non RCT to try to understand what they are doing and not been sure if it's a good or bad study.)

In this post I'm slightly concerned by the title. The guidelines ask to use the original title, that is "Pfizer's COVID-19 protection against infection may wane after 2 months, but it still prevents hospitalization and death for at least 6, new study finds" . It's too long.

You can be pessimist and use the first part, or optimist and use the second part. Both are opinionated reductions. The OP used a sentence somewhere in the middle of the article, that is also a possibility in case the title is too bad, but in this case it's also a very opinionated choice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28721282

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Re:Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 2... by AndrewBissell on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:32AM (#28800390)
The headline and link have changed from the original Yahoo News post I submitted. I can't find it now (they have since been changed to emphasize the durability against hospitalization), but it said something like "Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes after 2 months, may reach as low as 20% after 4 months." It was too long and I tried to cut it down while preserving the most salient details in the original headline.
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Re:Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 2... by gus_massa on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:53AM (#28800614)
Sorry for that. I forget to include that possibility. It's still visible in the URL https://www.insider.com/pfizer-covid-19-immunity-protection-... ( to avoid the ... in HN: pfizer-covid-19-immunity-protection-wanes-reaches-20-four-months-2021-10 )
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Re:Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 2... by AndrewBissell on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:01PM (#28800733)
No worries. I will confess to sometimes adding "restrictions" to "due to Covid" headlines (e.g. with "Hunger increases sharply in the developing world due to Covid" I would add it), but I see that as just remedying the editorialization implicit in the originals.
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