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All likely to be infected, I certainly believe.

But I've been operating under the assumption that while vaccination won't prevent you from infection, it is still highly effective (90%+) at reducing symptoms, even with Delta. I'm certainly open to learning if this is false, however. I've just seen statistics that over 95% of people hospitalized are unvaccinated.



I believe that number is in the 80s for the mRNA vaccines and lower for the others (minus the one from Russia).


There are many efficacy numbers. mRNA does help against infection but efficacy is apparently low, like 50-60%. Makes sense because they weren't really developed with that in mind.

Efficacy goes to 60-80% for symptomatic, over 80% for serious/hospitalization, and mid 90% for death. I think.




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