figure 1C, and:
"[...] post-vaccination neutralization titers were equal to or exceeded the titers found in the high responder convalescent group" medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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FYI:
Neutralizing antibodies bind to SARS-CoV-2 to prevent it from infecting cells.
Vaccines can not only increase them more initially without infection, but also increase them after infection.
Maybe he should spend more time honestly listening to criticism, as opposed:
- to running from it
- sub-tweeting his critics
- messing up more on COVID-19 vaccines for kids?
Saying 'infection is better than vaccination' is a standard trope of vaccine denialism, as is peddling anti-vaxxers' misleading/false tropes while claiming to be pro-vaccine.
Let's not fall for it.
You may recently have heard that COVID-19 has a fatality rate of ~0.15%, making it akin to a bad flu.
In reality, a more accurate fatality rate would be closer to ~0.6%, as per the WHO.
That's ≥10X worse than seasonal flu, and ~100X worse than the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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Background:
Infection fatality rate (IFR) is the proportion of people infected with the virus SARS-CoV-2 who die of the disease COVID-19.
In the above tweet, Prasad uses tone trolling to defend John Ioannidis. Since at least March 2020, + continuing to now, Ioannidis made obviously incorrect claims that downplayed the risk of COVID-19.
Example: Ioannidis so under-estimated the proportion of people infected people who die of COVID-19 (i.e. the infection fatality rate, or "IFR"), that he needs more people to be infected than actually exist.