[House Atreides]

“What is the percentage of the population to have contracted COVID? And how does that compare to the percentage projected to catch COVID notwithstanding the vaccine?”
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I have no idea how many Americans have “contracted COVID” and I suspect no one else does. This is because many infections are entirely ASYMPTOMATIC or are SYMPTOMATIC but the person just quietly clears the disease. I wish we knew the answer to that question and to the related question of when will we reach herd immunity.

I also don’t know the answer to your second question other than to say the percentage of the vaccinated who later catch COVID will be VASTLY LOWER than the percentage of the UNvaccinated who later catch COVID while remaining unvaccinated.

And if YOU know the answers to your questions, please share.

[Tipllub]

“I have no idea how many Americans have “contracted COVID” and I suspect no one else does. This is because many infections are entirely ASYMPTOMATIC or are SYMPTOMATIC but the person just quietly clears the disease. I wish we knew the answer to that question and to the related question of when will we reach herd immunity.”

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Is the claim of 95% effectiveness limited to just Americans or was that on a worldwide basis? Worldwide, stats are showing that about 1.5% of the world’s population have come back positive. So 95% effectiveness when only 98.5% of the population have contracted it doesn’t sound very good to me.

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“I also don’t know the answer to your second question other than to say the percentage of the vaccinated who later catch COVID will be VASTLY LOWER than the percentage of the UNvaccinated who later catch COVID while remaining unvaccinated.”

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I don’t know if that’s true or not but that will ultimately give us the answer on effectiveness. We will also need to compare death from ALL CAUSES on the vaccinated vs unvaccinated.