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The protection rate oddly correlates with the hearsay that ~95% of people testing positive experience mild to moderate symptoms. I think I’m in the wrong business.



Haha. I understand what you're thinking, but from a benefit standpoint, it's not only about the 95% having fewer symptoms.

It's about the 95% never being contagious.

So they can't cause the disease to spread to the 5% that are at risk of death.


> It's about the 95% never being contagious.

I don't think the study has measured whether vaccinated people are less contagious (or get infected). It's primarily measuring protection from disease.


I’m glad at least one person in the world understood the irony.


This kind of humour is called "no sense of humour". Rare, but happens.


HN isn't the place for baseless conspiracy theories.


Not even a baseless conspiracy theory, it's such a failure of basic reading comprehension that it borders on bad faith.

They gave the vaccine to a bunch of people, people in the control group got COVID 20 times more often than in the vaccine group, what's there to dispute?


No, that’s not what the statistics is saying. The compares the rate of symptomatic disease between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups in a double blind study.

The incidence of symptomatic people in two equal sized groups over time has reached 90 versus 5 in the unvaccinated versus vaccinated group.




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