Re:Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or tw...
by api on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:52PM
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> There is still substantial (lessened, but not as drastically lessened) protection against serious illness / death.
My understanding so far is that the vaccine is much better at blunting the effects than preventing infection generally, even with "classic" COVID and delta.
In Ohio where I live the statistic so far has been that >90% of all hospitalized cases are unvaccinated, and of the ~10% who are vaccinated the majority have other conditions that boost risk of severe COVID such as being immunocompromised, diabetes, obesity, etc. There are very very few healthy vaccinated people in the hospital.
My understanding so far is that the vaccine is much better at blunting the effects than preventing infection generally, even with "classic" COVID and delta.
In Ohio where I live the statistic so far has been that >90% of all hospitalized cases are unvaccinated, and of the ~10% who are vaccinated the majority have other conditions that boost risk of severe COVID such as being immunocompromised, diabetes, obesity, etc. There are very very few healthy vaccinated people in the hospital.