RE: America12 Dec 2021 22:08
Valueplay, it is not about stopping the spread, and a 0% claim is a bit strong and suspect. My instinct to that claim is immediately suspicious. Claiming no protection? And even Pfizer being so low at 35%?? That looks to me more like omicron is actually a different virus, not a variant. What's more, the moment the genome was sequenced, if there was so little protection, the boffins would have been able to say so almost immediately because of the way the chemistry and biology works. Thinking about it, if that really is a genuine number, then it is a new covid, covid 21. It would have to be radically different. If fact, was it genetically engineered to come up with such a fantastic failure rate.
The actually critical question is what are the symptoms and how life threatening are they. Vaccines have never stopped people contracting a disease. They have never worked like that. They arm the bodies immune system to be able to fight a virus and most of the time keep it's kinetics below a runaway threshold. And then when the virus takes hold the body has a fighting chance to keep the progress under control so that the symptoms that result due to the action of the immune system do not overwhelm the body. So I want to know how well Astra protects and helps fight the virus in the body.
The world is running around in circles chasing it's tail trying to stop the spread.