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> The COVID vaccines are some of the most effective vaccines ever invented.

I didn’t know that. Do you have a source that shows efficacy over 45% after 8 months? I couldn’t find one.



That's an oddly specific ask. The vaccines are absolutely fantastic in the short term, and there's credible evidence indicating the vaccine protection is long term, by analogy with how other vaccines work.

See e.g. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/141602012829108224... and https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Also worth noting, see scary stories about vaccine efficacy dropping (coinciding with alpha being replaced by delta)? Turns out the efficacy recovers afterwards. See https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143849966572136858.... Other real world studies show robust protection in the medium term, see https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143995133263551692....


The efficacy is “recovering” because the vaccinated are acquiring natural immunity. The way you / sailorrooscout present it obscures that simple fact.


That's not a simple fact; that's something you're making up.




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