How effective is (even recent) vaccination, really, as exposure approaches infinity? (Answer: quite good at preventing hospitalization and death; quite bad at preventing infection.)
Is anyone actually going to produce a more effective booster any time soon? NOPE.
Am I just incandescently furious with basically everything? DEFINITELY.
I am curious about the number needed to harm data and a cost/benefit analysis of COVID vaccination in general and also specifically for boosters. I suspect the latter would be overwhelmingly in favor of vaccination - the number might surprise people. The former would also be interesting. Probably wouldn't convince many vaccine hesitant people, but it might convince some.
ReplyDeleteThe CDC presentations did deal with that; given the low rate of hospitalization in young people vs. the roughly 1/20,000 incidence of myocarditis, it's actually marginal for under 30s.
DeleteI think the vaccine hesitant are both stupid and unconvincable at this point. (Maybe they're not all stupid, but they all watched nearly a million people die and were like, ..... nah.)
Cost benefit for boosters in over 60s is definitely favorable given how expensive hospitals are here! But people aren't logical. I know a pregnant lady who refused to get vaccinated ( "I'll do my own research") because she could not be convinced that she was actually pretty likely to die of covid and also there was good safety data. Totally illogical.