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0 pointsjtc3314y ago0 comments

The 61% is misleading because it includes children ineligible for the vaccine. My undertow that they’ve vaccinated something like 80% of adults (one of the highest on the world).

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ImPostingOnHN4y ago· 2 in thread

80% of adults is misleading because it excludes children who can still get the virus and spread it to others

tbh the concept of herd immunity doesn't care about who the law says can get vaccinated

angelzen4y ago

An unvaccinated child has less chance of severe covid compared to a vaccinated adult. Covid is different between child and adults, reasonable to hypothesize that transmission is also different.

> Evidence from studies primarily done before vaccine approval for those 12 years of age and older suggests that staff-to-staff transmission is more common than transmission from students to staff, staff to student, or student to student.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

ImPostingOnHN4y ago

"less chance of severe covid compared to a vaccinated adult" is an attempt to move the goalposts to an irrelevant point

if they're vaccinated, they count towards the numerator

if they are a person, and thus have a nonzero chance of getting infected, and a nonzero chance of infecting others if infected, they count towards the denominator

that's how you determine vaccination rate

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