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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 03:04:04 -0600, Jim Joyce
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 02:10:35 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:31:50 -0600, Jim Joyce
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:33:34 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:49:15 +0000, Bod wrote:

A single dose Covid-19 vaccine developed by Janssen is 66% effective,
the Belgian company has announced.

But nobody needed hospital treatment or died from coronavirus after
the
vaccine took effect in the international trial.

Crucially, it looked at giving just one dose of the vaccine, which
makes
it significantly easier to roll out than those requiring two.

Although there are also signs it is less effective against the new
variant that is spreading in South Africa.

The news comes shortly after Novavax announced their jab was 89%
effective overall in the UK and 60% in South Africa. Both new vaccines
will need to be reviewed by regulators before they can be used.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55857530

Another vaccine enters the fray. The more the merrier.

I am not sure how helpful when the vaccines are getting down around
the coin toss percentage of effectiveness.

You have to read past the headline. The J&J vaccine, single dose with no
extreme freezing requirement, had a lower effectiveness rate but they
said
zero test subjects who received the vaccine developed a severe case of
Covid-19 that required hospitalization, so that's still a huge
improvement.
The same could not be said for the placebo group.

If you are a possible asymptomatic carrier you need to continue all of
the protocols you are doing now.
Fauci said that not me.
That doesn't open closed businesses, let you go to a ball game or take
off your mask.

I think most everyone is aware of all of that. The situation doesn't
immediately improve when you get your shot.

Regardless, you were trying to claim something about a coin toss. Good to
see you've abandoned that.

Not really. If your odds are 50:50 that
you get the shot and you still get sick,

That is nothing even remotely like the
odds with the vaccines used in the USA.

it is a coin toss.

And when it isnt, it isnt, stupid.

That was when you folks started quibbling about "how sick".

No quibbling involved. Its what the vaccine does,
stops you getting serious disease if you get infected.

You also ignored the fact that 50% of the 60 or 70% that
will take the shot is not doing much for herd immunity.

Herd immunity is irrelevant at this stage.

(30-35% for you public school people)

More mindless **** from you.