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There, I fixed it for you, @BusinessInsider and @thehill.pic.twitter.com/ySHAtifqjf
It's been a year. Nobody who is unable to read a lab paper about neutralizing antibody titers & not realize this doesn't *directly* correspond to a same level of drop vaccine effectiveness ("10 times less effective" "12.4 times less effective") should be writing about this.
We've long known about the South African variant causing drops in neutralizing antibodies. Boosters are in the works, and given that the epidemic rose and fell very fast with those variants in South Africa even without vaccines is encouraging. Let's vaccinate widely and globally.
Also, the highly-transmissible UK variant isn't getting the same headlines because it doesn't cause drops in NAb titers against our vaccines, but it is! THAT THING REMAINS A HUGE THREAT and we need to vaccinate the world as fast as possible. Transmissibility is a huge danger.
The UK variant has done great damage, and will likely soon do real damage in places without widespread vaccination *right now*. The US may—just—escape the brunt because we do have robust vaccine supply... Immune escape is a real concern but exponentials are still terrible.
these stories really need a sense of humoral
Headlines are the weak link of the news communication system of modern western civilization. We are failing as a society mainly through bad headlines, and, more importantly, through peoples' lazy reliance on headlines to do the work for them. A very problematic arrangement.
It's not just the headline in this case though, unfortunately
Also, "n times less" is a nonsense phrase, mathematically.
Yes! Endlessly infuriating.
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