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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by eli on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:06PM (#30094620)
They’re working on it. But the original target effectiveness during vaccine development was 75%. We got lucky it was so much better against earlier strains. It’s still pretty good — about the same as an average year’s flu shot.

It’s a far cry from the apparently very popular myth that the vaccines no longer work at all.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by mike_hock on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:36PM (#30094942)
The flu shots are some of the least effective vaccines out there.

The original target effectiveness was set low because anything to nudge the R value down was better than nothing.

We now know that we can do much better.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by JakeAl on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:39PM (#30095510)
Flu shots are about 40% effective.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by sharken on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:15AM (#30112800)
What would be interesting, would be to see flu shot efficiency and COVID shot efficiency over time.

Preferably including Omicron data as well.

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