CV and mad panic behaviour

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Seems we are going to need booster jabs sooner than later and getting people to keep coming back isnt going to be easy.

It's a bit of a misleading or ambiguous report, because efficacy isn't just about infections. The concept in the media that the vaccines will stop infection is fundamentally wrong, and such studies used as the basis of media reports are a bit misleading. Many scientists and science communicators are a bit naivé, they report in a manner that allows findings to be mis-used or mis-quoted. What the science behind this really means to say is that you are not possibly safe unless you have been effectively vaccinated.

I do understand why they report that, it's because of the people who can't or won't get vaccinated, nobody is safe, the public can't wait this out and hope everybody around them will do the right thing, because even if they do anyone can still be infected and they can still transmit the virus to someone who isn't vaccinated.

Getting boosters won't necessarily reduce the infection rate, and the more people that get vaccinated will only lead to a higher percentage of cases being people already vaccinated. But in the countries with high vaccination rates acute cases are now made up of as high as 99% unvaccinated people, so the efficacy of the vaccines turns out to be very very high.