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Comment Re:She’s not totally wrong (Score 1) 334

The vaccines and their trial data as presented by the pharmaceutical companies made the claim that both mRNA vaccines had a 95% of preventing infection and that is most definitely a lie. (I’m going to ignore that no one in the 75+ age cohort received it, that handful that were included only in the placebo group.) Statistically, only 3.5% of the admissions should be SARS-CoV-2 positive while already vaccinated. (We can ignore variance due to the huge sample size.) What you are advocating is that the vaccines are mitigating the expression of the virus in vaccinated individuals. First off I agree, all the datasets are demonstrating this, everywhere. However, before you pat yourself on the back, not a single trial for any of the vaccines tested for this. None. We just got lucky, thankfully.By the way, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that this is the reason behind the price jump for both mRNA vaccines.

Comment She’s not totally wrong (Score -1, Flamebait) 334

Despite reaching the herd immunity goal of 70% of the population, SARS-CoV-2 is spreading unchecked by the vaccines. 75% of the known new cases are people fully vaccinated. Those are hard facts from the CDC&P. What we have found is that the vaccines are ineffective at stopping the Delta mutation. Further, the transmission rate between individuals vaccinated or not is the same (no statistical difference). From some of the Israeli data, even a booster fails to stop the spread of Delta. Calling the vaccines ineffective is too harsh a conclusion, at the least with Delta. Frankly I barely have a clue who Greene is or her politics. I do know the conclusions above have nothing to do with her. These are conclusions by myself and those in the fields of epidemiology and immunology. Epidemiology is one of my fields both in the lab and out.

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