This is how conditional probability works, also for vaccines: if you look at severe outcomes for vaccinated people, they are pretty uncommon (as is reinfection as this paper states!) but when they do occur, more likely to be immunocompromised or otherwise higher-risk.
One can simultaneously recognize relatively elevated risk for these groups (which is always true: infants, immunocompromised and the elderly) while also recognizing that after vaccination (or, tragically after infection), that particular relative risk of severity goes way down.
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You know very well a large amount of the "vulnerable" don’t mount a good response to vaccines: SOT, onco patients, biologics, nephro patients, the list goes on. That’s basically you and me sometimes in our lives in a situation of frailty.
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"Them" = us/our family/a friend/a neighbor. Severity ≠ novelty. It’s a SARS. Not comparable to OC43. Vaccines are amazing but once most of the world pop gets vaccinated, we are going to need to keep this Rt < 1. "Targeted protection" failed and is meant to fail again.
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