I don’t know why you think this. Covid cases — people merely testing positive — are overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated in every state. Vaccine cuts your risk by 3x to 5x depending where you look.
If you read to the bottom of the previous study I posted they addressed vaccine effectiveness too based on UK data. They work! Just make sure to get your booster.
> It cuts your risk by 3x to 5x depending where you look.
In other words, it's 70-80% effective, which is pretty poor performance for a vaccine. So, can we please get an update that encodes the Omicron spike instead of trying to boost antibodies for a virus that's now extinct?
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.
Quick question, if I forced you to stand in a groin-kicking machine that will:
A) Once in every.. I dunno, 200 times (0.5%) it kicks you so hard that, without protection you're 100% going to die
B) Once every 10 times (10%) it kicks you so hard you're sent to the hospital
C) Just to spitball, let's say 3 out of 10 times it will kick you hard enough that you're out of commission for a couple days but able to recover without hospitalization
D) 3 out of 10 times it will lightly kick you where you hurt a bit but it's just a minor inconvenience
E) The rest of the time it will let you leave without being kicked.
Ok, so you're strapped into this machine. Now, before I turn it on, I offer you a cup (protection). 70%-80% of the time this cup will offer you complete protection against whatever the machine throws at you. But remember that it's still 100% effective when the machine does nothing, so we only need to look at the 70.5% of the time the machine will actually kick you.
So with 70%-80% protection call it 75% effective, we drop our percentages for each scenario:
A) 0.5% -> 0.125%
B) 10% -> 2.5%
C) 30% -> 7.5%
D) 30% -> 7.5%
This is just doing the simple math. The vaccines drastically lower the chance of severe COVID compared to no vaccine at a higher rate than their overall effectiveness.
So again, you going in there wearing the cup or no? Because that's the choice you have when it comes to getting vaccinated.
Pfizer is planning to release an "Omicron + previous variants" version of their vaccine in March. I guess even with the accelerated approval scheme it takes some time. Then we will wait for the manufacturing.
There is also the "what will happen to the previous batches" question as no one will be willing to get the old vaccine.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/omicron-largely-evade... estimates that prior infection offered 85% protection against Delta but only 19% against Omicron.