I would think the current jab will not be any good against this...
RE: I would think the current jab will not be any good against this...
Before concluding that a particular vaccine ( or jab in British parlance ) is or is not working against COVID-19 in a country, these are the most important questions we need to ask:
1. Are the people getting sick in Israel ( where the recent outbreak is from the Delta variant) vaccinated or unvaccinated?
This is a real no-brainer. For instance, we know there is a Delta surge in Israel. But if you look closely, unvaccinated people are getting sick at nearly 30 times higher rates than vaccinated. I’m not sure if you can blame the vaccines.
2. What is the denominator?
There was an inflammatory article about Indonesian healthcare workers getting sick after a Sinovac jab with “dozens” getting hospitalized. What it leaves out is that over 5000 healthcare workers were vaccinated in that place. Were they all exposed? How many unvaccinated people got sick? What is “dozens?” Very sloppy work. If it is true that 5000 were exposed but 350 got sick, then that’s still over 90% effectiveness.
3. What is the vaccination rate in the country?
An article from a usually reliable publication had a headline saying that cases were surging in countries that had used the Chinese vaccine. Well there are surges in the UK, US, India, even Israel where they don’t use Chinese vaccines.
Going back to item 1, how many of those who got sick were actually vaccinated and fully vaccinated? Were there many deaths among those vaccinated?
Before concluding that a particular vaccine ( or vaccines in general ) is or is not working against COVID-19 in a country, the above are the most important questions we need to ask. Have they been answered satisfactorily?
Israel is reporting over 50% of it’s Delta Covid infections are in already immunized individuals.
fauci said we’d need a ‘booster’ come fall...
He knows...I hate that little weasel, but he knows and is responsible.
The only way to fight the delta variant is to wrap demonrats head to toe in 10 layers of saran wrap.