Pfizer vaccine efficacy drops in Israel as delta variant spreads

[moriah]

19. If that was based on May data, and data from the US, then sadly....

... it may not apply to the Delta strain -- depending on just what it "learned" through its "experiments" while blowing through a large country in how to be more easily transmissible. Or it may. We just don't know.

We can hope it does prevent the vaccinated who don't realize their "allergies" are COVID from infecting others, but it is still possible depending on how this and future strains evolve/d.

Also, on the totally anecdotal side, I am one of those people who catches every "creeping crud" and other upper respiratory virus (with the exception of the flu, at least if I get vaccinated). I have seen how "asymptomatic" transmission works, in that a cold would be going around my guy's office, he'd feel a touch run down but nothing to stop him from going to work or even thinking of himself as "sick", and then I'd get the full-blown virus from being a close household contact despite him probably barely incubating much at all.

The fact I catch every respiratory bug (and in the last decade, often end up in the hospital as a result of minor bugs) is why I got the vaccine as soon as my category became eligible -- not because I expected it to be 100% at keeping me from getting sick or giving it to others, but to keep me from dying if I caught it. I had set my expectations fairly low from the outset, so I'm not shocked or disappointed really. (My expectations were also low because I am in the state that now has the number 1 rate of new infections per capita, at least per what I read on Twitter, and my observations of our habits/our vaccination rates do not contradict that potential factoid.)