1/ What's the BIGGEST DOWNSIDE to giving ALMOST EVERYONE boosters?
REINFORCING MISPERCEPTIONS that:
- Vaccines are silver bullets
- Breakthrough infections mean vaccines are failing
Vaccines are necessary but not sufficient.
REINFORCING MISPERCEPTIONS that:
- Vaccines are silver bullets
- Breakthrough infections mean vaccines are failing
Vaccines are necessary but not sufficient.
2/ Vaccines provide a relative risk reduction.
Your risk of a SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination remains proportional to the level of transmission in your community.
The best way to minimize your risk isn't boosters. It's to address transmission in your community.
Your risk of a SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination remains proportional to the level of transmission in your community.
The best way to minimize your risk isn't boosters. It's to address transmission in your community.
3/ How do you reduce transmission in your community and thereby reduce your risk?
- Vaccinated the UNvaccinated
- Mask (at least for now)
- Indoor ventilation & air filtration (we don't do NEARLY enough of this)
- Test 2-3 times/week & isolate infectious persons
- Vaccinated the UNvaccinated
- Mask (at least for now)
- Indoor ventilation & air filtration (we don't do NEARLY enough of this)
- Test 2-3 times/week & isolate infectious persons
4/ Boosters are unlikely to provide more than a few month-long boost in antibody levels.
It's unclear they'll do anything for your long-term memory immune response.
We'll likely find ourselves right back to where we were pre-boost a few months later.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
It's unclear they'll do anything for your long-term memory immune response.
We'll likely find ourselves right back to where we were pre-boost a few months later.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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