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Originally Posted by Velvet
This is what the article says:
“1. The vaccines are 95% effective and may help reduce the severity of the disease.
In Phase 3 studies, both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were found to be 95% effective in the early months after the vaccine. Put simply, “If there were 100 people who would have gotten COVID, it prevented 95 of them from getting it, but it didn’t prevent all 100,” says Dr. Marks. “It definitely provides some protection, but it’s not perfect.”
The good news is that early data found that those who did contract COVID-19 after receiving the vaccine did not develop a severe form of the disease. “So even if it doesn’t completely prevent illness, the study data shows that it does reduce the severity,” says Dr. Marks.”
Without the actual numbers, these statements are a bit vague and can be interpreted differently. My understanding is that 95% of the people who were vaccinated did not get Covid, but 5% did. And those who did get Covid after they were fully inoculated, had “reduced severity”. So they did not die (in my language).
If there is a different interpretation I’d like to hear it.
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I agree with your interpretation. That is how I see it. I figure, now that I'm fully vaccinated, if I do contract Covid, I'm in that unlucky 5%. But being unlucky is not all THAT bad because I won't have severe disease so I won't need hospitalization and I won't die directly from Covid.
I don't want to be naive to think that there won't be deaths but just not directly from Covid. Deaths from heart attacks, cancer and all sort of co-morbidites could do anyone in but it won't be a direct result from Covid. My opinion, of course.