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The article does apparently only talk about attack rate efficacy/effectiveness. What is much more important in a population with high vaccination rates is the reduction of hospitalization and mortality which is much more long lasting with the vaccines.

Edit: here are the graphs for mortality from the study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620#F3



The article does talk about mortality rates quite extensively, immediately after the first section about infection rates.

Starting sentence for that 2nd section is

> The three vaccines held up better in their ability to prevent COVID-19 deaths..

You will find the changes in two age groups, above and below 65. Modena and Pfizer/BioNTech again much better than J&J, albeit still showing a significant decline in the ability to prevent death.




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