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Old 04-02-2021, 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by gdennis317 View Post

95% effective means 5 out of 100 get it
So, you are inferring that if nobody got vaccinated, 100% of the population would get infected.

Simply not true. 95% effective means 5 out of 100 are susceptible to exposure.

We know that of those susceptible, 95% will not get it, and of the 5% that will get it, 98% will survive.

The math gets rather long but of a sampling of 50,000, 2500 are susceptible

Of that 2500, 100 will get Covid.

Of that 100, more than 98 will survive

So effectively, 1 in 50,000 will not survive....

That's the math...