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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Misleading reporting (quelle surprise)
The nearly no protection refers to against symptomatic infection, both vaccines offer higher levels of protection against serious illness and death (as reported by sky news, however they didn’t provide specific numbers)
The 75% protection by booster is also for those initially double jabbed with Pfizer, for those (the majority) who were double jabbed with AstraZeneca it drops to 70%
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I see, just because it's the DM it's misleading reporting and you ,obviously didn't bother to read the report.
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And while Covid booster jabs have been shown to be effective against Omicron, there are concerns that the millions of people who are yet to get their third inoculation could be unprotected against symptoms of the virus without it. Officials stress two doses should still offer high protection against severe illness.
Government scientists compared 581 cases of Omicron in Britain with 56,000 of Delta to give preliminary estimates of how well vaccines protect against a variant with mutations that help it evade the body’s immune response.
They found that the mostly elderly people who had two doses of AstraZeneca several months ago had almost no protection against Omicron infection, and two Pfizer doses offered little more than 30 per cent.
But a third dose, if using Pfizer, can take protection levels back up to 71 per cent in those who had AstraZeneca the first time around and 76 per cent for those who had Pfizer.
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Misleading? No. Clickbait headline? Yes.