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Originally Posted by Pierre
I'm not sure you fully understand what reports on the AZ effectiveness on the SA variant actually say. It fails to prevent the
person getting moderate to mild symptoms but it does prevent serious illness.
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No, it says nothing about serious illness. It might prevent it, it might not. But the doubts were serious enough for SA to sell 1 million doses that had already been delivered, and switch to J&J instead.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Depends what you mean by poorly, that report advises efficacy of between 50-65% but does not give detail on the severity of any infection post vaccination, if it stops serious illness and hospitilisation then it's done its job as far as I can tell.
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The ongoing case and death rates in Chile, despite having 47% of the population vaccinated, suggest otherwise:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/chile
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations