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In reply to the discussion: Study: Pfizer vaccine 88 percent effective against delta variant [View all]lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. There is so much gray area. What exactly constitutes a "breakthrough" infection?
Positive PCR? How many asymptomatic people get tested? Very few, I would assume.
Mild symptoms? Again, how many people get tested?
Hospitalization?
And what exactly does 88% effective even mean? If you are exposed all day every day, over the course of your life you'll have a 12% chance of a positive PCR? Obviously a ridiculous example, but can anybody provide the exact real definition?
We have to be careful not to think of vaccines in black and white (i.e. Republican-like) terms. Vaccines are a great part of our arsenal to defend against COVID and its variants. They are neither perfect nor useless. When combined with masking, we can be very safe. Skip the vaccine or skip the mask, and we are in much greater danger.
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The Moderna vaccine is very likely in the same ballpark, give or take a point or two.
LonePirate
Jul 2021
#1
There is so much gray area. What exactly constitutes a "breakthrough" infection?
lagomorph777
Jul 2021
#3
We don't know how many of the 159 million have been exposed to Delta Covid.
NH Ethylene
Jul 2021
#28
You said it: '...spread the disease so that Republicans have a better chance to win in 2022'
peppertree
Jul 2021
#6
Spread the disease among their own voters, and give themselves a better chance?
lagomorph777
Jul 2021
#9
killing their voters won't-- the only thing I can figure is they think they have to keep the
LymphocyteLover
Jul 2021
#11
They figure that for every death, they can turn 5 or 10 voters against Biden
peppertree
Jul 2021
#19