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Originally Posted by Chris
You know, it’s fun to be able to see the last time any particular member viewed this thread. Because it means some of the loudest critics of British government policy around vaccine rollout, and serial doubters of the efficacy data for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in particular, have been on the forum and have viewed this thread since the new data began to get wide coverage this evening. Yet none of them has had anything to say about it.  |
Why would they?
We’d simply be dismissed for having the audacity to think that this Government would take short cuts to get out of the pandemic. Herd immunity, antibody testing, rapid testing and Operation Moonshot all strategies to shorten the pandemic in the hope we’d gain some economic benefit. You’ve made the point yourself that there are
serial doubters. I’ll happily put myself in that category and to be honest no number of scientists mulling over the data and presenting it in a slightly different way is going to give me confidence given it could be presented as 62/70/90/95% by the company responsible for testing it themselves.
The real world activity is ongoing now and against the active variants in the community. The only results that count.
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Originally Posted by Angua
The proof in the pudding of the Pfizer jab, will be whether people get a second booster dose within the time frame and the effect of that on the variants.
I would not be surprised if yet another variant appears before a month is out.
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Given the lag time for information on new variants to enter the public domain it’s certainly possible there are further mutations out there already.