Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
by ant6n on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:16PM
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Last year Delta didn't exist. If you want to see efficacy of vaccination, compare incidence among vaccinated and non-vaccinated (which will be about 4x).
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Re:The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
by graeme on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:43PM
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Yeah but my point is that people point to relative efficacy when it is absolute reduction which matters. Delta being 2x worse means you need a stronger relative protection.
What do you mean by 4x: relative severe disease protection? That would be 75% efficacy, a marked drop from 95% efficacy (20x protection). I think most of the west still has higher severe disease efficacy than that, though Israel fell as low as 80% pre booster.