Vaccination has not stopped Covid in any of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, such as Israel, Malta, Iceland. Many of these countries are experiencing their highest case loads ever, even with vaccination rates in the 60-80% range, a range typically considered high enough to confer herd immunity.
The bad news is the vaccines are not protective enough to prevent infection or transmission, and their effectiveness seems to fade after ~6months according to Israeli data on Pfizer. The good news is, for most people vaccination seems to reduce severity of symptoms.
However, other good news is that numerous studies demonstrate naturally acquired immunity provides superior protection (according to Israeli data, over 6.7 times as effective) and long-lasting immunological response. Serological surveys can be conducted to determine the degree of natural immunity existing in a population.
Everyone is going to get Covid eventually, it's time to look at treatments that help the body defeat Covid with minimal harm.
Nope, not even. I had COVID Delta - it was unpleasant, but it didn’t change the way a human’s immune system works. Something called antibodies I believe….
Hi Erik, love your work and enjoy reading it regardless of it I agree or not. I am going to do something I never do and comment on the article you wrote.
I think if we want to handle Covid we need to be honest and open about everything. Only 9.1% of African Americans are fully vaccinated according to the CDC's website. Why is that not discussed when talking about vaccines. Is it racist to call out one race? People don't seem to have a problem calling out white Trump supporters.
You specifically call out Florida but their vaccination rate is 58% and is hardly the worst in the country and close to other states like California (65%). I think the media has a fascination with Florida because Desantis is the frontrunner to be president if Trump doesn't run again. ( I hope he doesn't.)
I got all of this from the CDC website. I am not writing this to argue or be mean but just to have a conversation. I am not from Florida so I am not defending the state because of that. I am from Maryland and I do consider myself belonging to one political party so its not Partisan BS.
In the UK, we are heading towards 80% vaccination. The overly dominant variant here is Delta, yet cases day on day are falling, as are hospital admissions. People are still catching Covid, but in the vast majority of cases it is causing nothing more than the equivalent of a serious case of the flu. Our government is planning for booster shots to run alongside the autumn flu jabs. So in short, you appear to be right: mass vaccination is probably the way out.
Vaccination has not stopped Covid in any of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, such as Israel, Malta, Iceland. Many of these countries are experiencing their highest case loads ever, even with vaccination rates in the 60-80% range, a range typically considered high enough to confer herd immunity.
The bad news is the vaccines are not protective enough to prevent infection or transmission, and their effectiveness seems to fade after ~6months according to Israeli data on Pfizer. The good news is, for most people vaccination seems to reduce severity of symptoms.
However, other good news is that numerous studies demonstrate naturally acquired immunity provides superior protection (according to Israeli data, over 6.7 times as effective) and long-lasting immunological response. Serological surveys can be conducted to determine the degree of natural immunity existing in a population.
Everyone is going to get Covid eventually, it's time to look at treatments that help the body defeat Covid with minimal harm.
Nope, not even. I had COVID Delta - it was unpleasant, but it didn’t change the way a human’s immune system works. Something called antibodies I believe….
Hi Erik, love your work and enjoy reading it regardless of it I agree or not. I am going to do something I never do and comment on the article you wrote.
I think if we want to handle Covid we need to be honest and open about everything. Only 9.1% of African Americans are fully vaccinated according to the CDC's website. Why is that not discussed when talking about vaccines. Is it racist to call out one race? People don't seem to have a problem calling out white Trump supporters.
You specifically call out Florida but their vaccination rate is 58% and is hardly the worst in the country and close to other states like California (65%). I think the media has a fascination with Florida because Desantis is the frontrunner to be president if Trump doesn't run again. ( I hope he doesn't.)
I got all of this from the CDC website. I am not writing this to argue or be mean but just to have a conversation. I am not from Florida so I am not defending the state because of that. I am from Maryland and I do consider myself belonging to one political party so its not Partisan BS.
In the UK, we are heading towards 80% vaccination. The overly dominant variant here is Delta, yet cases day on day are falling, as are hospital admissions. People are still catching Covid, but in the vast majority of cases it is causing nothing more than the equivalent of a serious case of the flu. Our government is planning for booster shots to run alongside the autumn flu jabs. So in short, you appear to be right: mass vaccination is probably the way out.