I haven’t seen that data from India. They’ve been exporting most of the vaccine doses they produce and their healthcare system is pretty poor, so getting solid data from them is difficult.
We do have great data from Israel where vaccination is widespread: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/pfizer-covid-vaccine-blocks-94percent-of-asymptomatic-infections-and-97percent-of-symptomatic-cases-in-israeli-study.html
94% reduction in risk for asymptomatic infection, 97% reduction in risk for symptomatic infection there. And they went from nearly 10,000 new cases per day and 100 deaths per day to yesterday’s staggering 50 cases and 2 deaths. For the whole country. All of Israel’s neighbors are seeing cases and deaths from COVID-19 either rise significantly or remain steady. Only Israel is seeing a massive drop in new cases and deaths. Only Israel has that many vaccinated.
Jan_Sobieski, my remarks are based primarily on the published statistics. Seems to be the same for 2PTR given the few posts I’ve noticed — however, we’re not necessarily arriving at the same conclusions.
To be clear, I’m not discrediting 2aProtectsTheRest nor his/her findings.
2PTR appears to have a favorable view of the vaccines, and I’m not yet seeing a compelling picture at least for the US — too few dimensions and the exclusion of demographics, environment, and historical influenza trends.
‘Only Israel has that many vaccinated.’
is it then your studied opinion that similar numbers of vaccinations in a place like India would yield a like result...? we know that the Israeli population is a very small
cohort compared to India, and has a considerably higher standard of living...there is also the likelihood that different cultures have differing health outcomes due to largely unknown factors...
and if you believe this, and if India is undervaccinated, how is it corrected...?