What I notice in this piece is the sheer number of informed people, all saying the same thing - variants mean it’s not over yethttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/health/coronavirus-variants-vaccines.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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What is your theory?
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I think I might know whose theory that is!
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(I am encouraging that person to either write it up or find a way to test it. A you say, we don't know but I'm just dying we aren't putting an extraordinary effort to try to tease out what on earth happened.)
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Discourse: B.1.1.7 will prolong the pandemic. (It will speed it up, but tragically). South African variant makes our vaccines "useless." (Neutralizing antibodies aren't the whole immune system and can we take a look at what's happened in the one place it's dominant?") *headdesk*
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Think the reading by which B.1.1.7 can be considered to prolong is it means more immunity required, and NPIs needed for longer. But otherwise agree
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Right, though the data/experience of last year makes it clear people react to surges outside of NPI mandates. Hence I wish there was real curiosity & a data-driven deep dive into what actually happened with this variant (rather than incorrect statements about vaccine efficacy).
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It’s super interesting and obviously very relevant. Yet utterly missing from the “oh noes vaccines are useless against the SA variant” (which is obviously not what has been shown whatsoever but alas) message that’s now spreading.
