Better odds. When tested, for every 20 people in the control group caught the Wuhan Flu only 1 in the vaccination group caught it. That's what 95% effective means. No one said it was perfect.
“When tested, for every 20 people in the control group caught the Wuhan Flu only 1 in the vaccination group caught it.”
And those vaccinated that actually caught it, none died or had symptons serious enough to be hospitalized. Now that millions have been vaccinated there have been some hospitalized, but none yet have died or been in serious condition so far.
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The initial success rate percentages such as 95% etc, will almost certainly change. For example, the B1.351 (South Africa)variant is able to completely evade the vaccine. Therefore, if (probably when) this variant begins to spread in the population the percentages will change with it. We will need a new vaccine using the spike protein for that variant in order to be immune.
Posts #4, #6, and #9, good points.
> 99.99% of peoples regular immune system are effective against covid already
I know of a woman who got COVID a FEW DAYS after she was vaccinated with the first shot. Her doctor felt she would have died if she had not gotten the shot when she did - it gave her some immunity - not a lot but enough to keep her going. She was 84.
I know of a woman who got COVID a FEW DAYS after she was vaccinated with the first shot. Her doctor felt she would have died if she had not gotten the shot when she did - it gave her some immunity - not a lot but enough to keep her going.
She was 84.
These vaccinations don’t prevent covid the minute they hit your bloodstream...it takes days - even weeks to get strong protection.
But if you are in a group of all vaccinated people, the probability of getting infected goes way down, because any two people who talk with each other will have something like over 99% immunity.
When you are in a group where you don’t know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t, your immunity will not be that high but will be determined by how many in the group have been vaccinated. Impossible to determine mathematically.