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Israel: 86% Increase in Effectiveness with 3rd Pfizer Dose
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[QUOTE="Ygggdrasil, post: 6530505, member: 124113"] A key piece of information missing from the news article is how they measured protection. Is the figure they cite protection against symptomatic disease or protection against infection? Studies of the vaccine shows that protection against symptomatic disease is higher than protection against infection. However, these numbers would exclude people infected asymptomatically who are still capable of spreading the virus. Some of your conclusions (esp. with regard to herd immunity) assume that the figures represent protection against infection, which is not clear in the article (measuring protection against infection is much harder to do as it requires regular testing, so it is unlikely that this study measured protection against infection). This is why it is quite annoying when data gets released via the news media rather than from scientific publications or pre-prints detailing the methods used to collect and analyze the data. [/QUOTE]
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