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Abhijit Bakshi's avatar

I have a question (and please pardon me as I don't speak German and am relying on an evil corporation to translate your very interesting article).

Regarding this statement, "Impfung einen Schutz vor dem schwersten Verlauf, dann müsste sich eigentlich der Anteil der 3-fach Geimpften unter den Todesfällen relativ zum Anteil der 3-fach Geimpften im Krankenhaus signifikant reduzieren." If the Google translate is correct then it sounds like you're saying that if the booster works it would result in a lower proportion of hospitalized people going on to die...

Assuming I understood that right, I'm not so sure that's true. My first point is that a real vaccine is supposed to prevent you from contracting the disease at all, so when we get to talking about hospitalizations and deaths we're already pretty far along. But my more important point is that doesn't hospitalization essentially indicate a heightened probability that the person has contracted a severe version of the disease that is likely to be life-threatening? To be honest once you reach that state I wouldn't expect any vaccine to change my likelihood of death. It should prevent hospitalization if it's effective.

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