Pfizer vaccine efficacy drops in Israel as delta variant spreads

[moriah]

15. Yep, especially if the Israel stats are based on infections bad enough to make....

.... vaccinated people go to the doctor -- even with adding extensive contact tracing/testing for antibodies as well as active infections among vaccinated contacts -- then it means it's probably a coin toss whether or not the vaccinated in low-vaccination-rate states will function as "COVID Mary's" for Delta.

I appreciate your reference and pulls from the main article for the data I wasn't seeing.

As I said, I feel bad here that, as a vaccinated person hanging with other vaccinated people (there were all of 3 of us, including me, in total but that's the closest thing to social interaction I've really had since all this started) I could still end up spreading the virus. I will continue to mask in businesses, even if now that they removed almost all mandates from everywhere (even for employees) here I get weird looks.

At the same time, I feel like eventually a part of me is going to get callous towards those who refuse to get the vaccine, insofar as how I live my own life when the air outside is soup and there's not any AC. I dealt with it last summer mainly by avoidance, and that's what I'll try again this summer. I'm hopeful that the vaccine will have full FDA approval by the fall, so those who have been saying they don't want to get a vaccine without being eligible for the Compensation Fund should they be in the tiny minority of ppl who have side effects will not have that excuse anymore....

But eventually, yes, I'm going to support the right of others to choose to die instead of get a shot, or at least not enable their failure to get one by making myself miserable NEXT summer.