09-03-2021, 08:19 PM
(09-03-2021, 07:33 PM)jeffster Wrote: First, it's not a false claim. People are still getting sick, even if vaccinated. They are still being hospitalized, with the vaccine. They are still dying, with the vaccine. Yes, I get it they offer you protection compared to being unvaccinated, but it's not nearly effective enough.
Reading the numbers of people who are infected while vaccinated is misleading. Most people who are infected, and almost every single person who has severe disease, is unvaccinated. But in a population where you have more vaccinated than unvaccinated people, it's going to be normal to see some number of vaccinated people get the disease.
It is true that the measles and polio vaccines are more effective than the COVID vaccines. I'm not sure that we will get a more effective COVID vaccine and I see few signs of there being a vaccine that is going to be orders of magnitude better. I think that non-pharmaceutical interventions in combination with this vaccine can absolutely beat COVID, but that requires political leadership.
I absolutely don't think that the science currently supports boosters for the general population yet. Israel and the US are getting in front of the science. See for instance this from The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ow/619965/