A week ago I posted that the US getting a vaccine wouldnt stop the pandemic bc it's governmentally incapable of building the infrastructure to distribute it, and ppl in the coping stage of grief came out of the woodworks to get big mad at me for telling the truth. I demand the record show I was right all along, about everything

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    As one of the "people in the coping stage of grief," here's what I actually said:

    I’m not saying COVID will necessarily be eradicated, but I think it will be possible to go back to normal and not keep having a 9/11 every day.

    Here's what the article says:

    Because of the dramatic age-skew of disease, vaccinating the small number of very old people has an astonishing impact on mortality risk. According to one assessment of the Israeli approach, which focuses on protecting the elderly first, vaccinating just the 0.5 percent of people over 90 drops the total fatality risk by 19 percent; vaccinating the 2.5 percent over 80 cuts it fully in half; vaccinating the 7.5 percent over 70, drops it by three-quarters. Ultimately, Israel chose to bulk-vaccinate all those over 60, so the improvements are less dramatic than they might have been. But by late January, the country will probably have reduced its fatality risk from the disease about tenfold.

    • deshara218 [any]
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      4 years ago

      the US isnt vaccinating at-risk people either

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Maybe not enough of them but they are getting priority and a small number of vaccinations has the potential to make a big difference.