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Re:Covid-19 breakthrough data by nojito on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:18PM (#29958962)
> It’s also showing a 2 dose effectiveness of over 70% against Omicron which we know to be under 10%

This isn't possible. If it were true, NYC would have collapsed during the Omicron wave due to bed shortages.

Re:Covid-19 breakthrough data by tremon on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:28PM (#29959628)
It would be possible if the hospitalization rate due to Omicron is also 7x lower than for the earlier variants. I don't have numbers in either direction, but given case loads rising everywhere yet recorded deaths remaining relatively stable, it's not a priori an impossibility.

(edit: just checked the UK's stats over the past month: infections have peaked at 200k/day, 5x the baseline rate over the past few months. Daily deaths have doubled but not yet peaked, suggesting Omicron has at most a 2.5x reduction in severity -- usual caveats apply, this is very coarse data, IANAE etc)