The US new cases continue to decrease in the US and are down to 30,000, deaths are now at 570 per day.
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BioNTech announces that it expects the vaccine it developed with Pfizer to be 70-75% effective against the Indian variant.
The continued effectiveness is good news but the reduction indicates the vaccine cannot by itself stop the pandemic.
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The continued effectiveness is good news but the reduction indicates the vaccine cannot by itself stop the pandemic.
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The pandemic can be stopped by a combination of vaccination and other measures. The key is still to make a decision to achieve elimination.
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If we can achieve elimination without vaccination, which we can, we can achieve elimination with vaccination much easier.
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As of now nearly 10% of the world is partially vaccinated. Can we achieve elimination with a vaccine dominant strategy? How long will that take? Do we really want to wait that long, and bear the cost of new variants?
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