CV and mad panic behaviour

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Hypothetically....
If the vaccine is 50% effective, but the general public are 500% more likely to get it, are you not more at risk from dying from it than you were previously?

[member=20]kruddler[/member]  Efficacy figures as reported are not simple as the media interpretations make out, it's a combination of symptom prevention, infection susceptibility and transmission prevention.

50% efficacy won't mean that the severe symptoms aren't prevented in close to 100% of the vaccinated. 50% it can mean some are protected but can still get or transmit the virus at 50% of the virus Ro value.

Yes, a more transmissible virus is far more deadly than a less transmissible virus regardless of the lethality. For this reason it's wrong for the vaccinated to freely circulate among the unvaccinated, without continuing the use of protective measures.

Ironically, a virus that is more lethal can often kill less as the host dies too soon to transmit, deaths are a function of lethality versus transmission. You could make the absurd analogy that a bullet is the most lethal virus, but once you've had it you won't spread it!