For older patients in recent outbreak efficacy rate ~66% & appears to correlate w/ other recent reports of “breakthrough” in older ppl suggesting efficacy 50%-85% depending on age cohort, brand of vaccine, viral variant & underlying health. Need to raise vaccination rates FAST.
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Remember that this 66% is for infection. The 95% figure from Pfizer's trial was on symptomatic disease, for which this study reports 87% effectiveness.
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Are there still people at this point who believe the vaccines don’t work very well? The false information I see spreading among prominent commentators is that the vaccines are essentially bulletproof, and that people are irrational if they don’t behave as such.
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Overconfidence in vaccines is much more common than vaccine hesitancy, IMO.
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..but also make the case that normalcy means all employees in nursing homes need to be vaccinated -> one vaccinated resident still died.
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(haven't seen a case study yet where infected VACCINATED staff member leads to a reasonable but definitely not zero number of breakthrough infections)
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@Lisawashere20 this is that pesky mutation I was talking about. Looks like the vaccine still performed really well with it:) - End of conversation
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Thank you for sharing. Many articles about 'breakthrough' infections among vaccinated fail to mention or stress protective effect of vaccine, & most omit the fact that low re-infection rate also occurs in people who previously had Covid-19. Showing a comparison would reduce fear.
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Yes, encouraging how well things are holding up even in worse case scenarios—already vulnerable population AND congregate living PLUS a variant that had caused a lot of worry. Better than I hoped. I mean, OC43 outbreaks cause deaths in nursing homes... This is solid protection.
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We need this to be the message. Also, vaccines cannot provide full protection against old age.
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