>>For those of us that are going to/have got a booster shot you might want to read this article.
>>For those of you that I challenge your arguments - the challenges are against arguments and not meant as a personal criticism. So, shoot your best shot- I've been proven wrong many times.
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https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20211227/covid-booster-protection-wanes-new-data>>Dec. 27, 2021 -- Booster shot protection against symptomatic COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant appears to fade in about 10 weeks, according to new data from Britain.
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>>Among those who received three Pfizer doses, vaccine effectiveness was 70% about a week after the booster but dropped to 45% after 10 weeks. At the same time, those who received an initial two-dose series of the Pfizer vaccine and then a Moderna booster seemed to have 75% effectiveness up to 9 weeks.
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>>Make up your own mind.
>>Has anyone seen anything on the effects of multiple booster shots and the auto immune system? I saw something last week but I can't find it again.
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>FYI
>You know that symptomatic COVID-19 is meaning the vaccine is working? It sharpens the immune systems response, so what is shown is that the booster need a while to kick in.
>The vaccine does not stop one from getting infected, It stops the virus from spreading wide and become real high numbers. Anyway, the immune system must kick in. This does not work with single virus, The symptoms are more or less not the virus, but bodies response. And it is expected to be faster and harder then w/o vaccine. But on the long term the less problematic.
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I'm not sure about the spreading part.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2022/01/01/1069647633/covid-us-travel-flights-canceled-collegesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 486,428 confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day total since the pandemic began, according to agency data.
>The story that a vaccine makes one immune is marketing for the majority.
>The trick is that one does get higher chance to not get the full problem with lower virus density, what ends up with lesser problems to one self and a lesser probability to spread the virus. And that probability stops the disease from spreading around and is the way to help everybody. If one would be the only person vaccinated, the virus density created by everybody else would be to much for the immune system. It's all about probability and virus density. There is no 100% in probability, except that one must die one day. Else probability works only on large enough numbers, several hundred thousand are normally a good idea. Crap done on tens or hundreds is w/o meaning in statistics. To grok statistics one is a mathematician by birth and then one specialise by several years of study.
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>This (statistics, virus distribution) is simply to complex for John Doe. John Doe gets first-order approximation, what never ever is how it works. Even high level approach is talking of virus in the environment. But it is virons. And there are more levels of complexity.
>This is like talking a rocket must reach height because it ends up above us. But the real problem is speed. Or energy transferred to speed. Or ...
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>So, simply trust those that do that for life. Like you trust a CPU designer, a car maker or what ever.
I am one of those that "did it for life" , well for 45 years, anyway. I started on "mainframes" using SAS and SPSS before there were PC's. I moved to FOX in the middle 90's because the pay was good and it was a good way to collect data. I still used SPSS to analyze the data.
