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It does appear the the jabs help prevent death and hospitalization, but I don’t think it’s significant.
The gene therapies stated efficacy concerns only hospitalizations and death, not resistance to infection and not transmissibility.
In spite of what president brain dead says, and even somewhat shockingly the CDC director has said, the vaccinated can become infected. So the vaccines prevent events that are very rare in the young and healthy. And they may create a competive advantage to variants with mutated spike protein binding site sequences, causing a flourishing of previously non-advantaged resistant variants. If you are over 75 with significant co-morbidities, by alll means get vaccinated, and continually, as it is turning out. If you are morbidly obese, get vaccinated and consider laying off the carbs.
https://www.newstwo.net/2021/07/24/israel-pfizer-vaccine-allows-infection-but-prevents-severe-illness
Excerpt: "A new study released this week from Israel’s Health Ministry found that while the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant, it was much less effective than the health agency previously thought at protecting people from infection.
The study, conducted from June 20 to July 17, with results released in a report Thursday, found that the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech inoculation was roughly 88 percent effective at preventing hospitalization due to the delta variant and about 91 percent effective at protecting against severe cases.
However, the Israeli health agency said that for symptomatic COVID-19 cases, the vaccine was found to offer just about 41 percent protection against the delta variant, with an overall effectiveness of 39 percent for preventing delta variant infections.
The new percentage is much lower than the 64 percent effectiveness against delta variant infections that Israel reported earlier this month."
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This was predicted by Dr Yeadon of Pfizer, who warned that asymmetric immune response (via the mRNA pathway towards herd immunity, in the middle of a moving target, the Pandemic), could leave the body less capable of dealing with new variants which could evade the immune cells as there'll be fewer of them, non-specific for the original alpha-beta Spiked variant.
Sure, not the smoking gun that the vaccine program failed but it does indicate that the whole "twice jabbed and everything's fine, because the delta is only carried by the non-vaccinated", doesn't hold up well.