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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by app_gorilla on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:46PM (#30090682)
vaccinated people are much less likely to get infected on exposure?

With Omicron, vaccinated people are MORE likely to get infected, 90 days post-vaccine.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v...

Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by fossuser on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:52PM (#30090761)
Yeah, more likely to get infected on exposure than an unvaccinated person that has not previously had the disease.

The source link supports that claim as far as I can tell from what's on that page and doesn't say anything about vaccinated people being more likely to get infected vs. unvaccinated (both without natural immunity).

Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by app_gorilla on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:45PM (#30091513)
The study excluded previously PCR-positive individuals in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. So it's vaccinated and no prior exposure and unvaccinated and no prior exposure.

The infection rate 60 days post-vaccination were higher in the vaccine group.

Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by fossuser on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:44PM (#30092363)
"The negative estimates in the final period arguably suggest different behaviour and/or exposure patterns in the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts causing underestimation of the VE. This was likely the result of Omicron spreading rapidly initially through single (super-spreading) events causing many infections among young, vaccinated individuals."

Yeah, I think it's more likely that this is the explanation. At least I'd need to be persuaded that the more unlikely explanation is the correct one.

Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by app_gorilla on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:40PM (#30093143)
yah, difficult to control for that for sure. But most polling indicates unvaccinated folks are far less concerned about COVID in general and less likely to modify their behavior.

Source: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-co...