We can see an increased number of positive molecular PCR tests in vaccinated people, but this does not mean that they will develop a serious disease, because their test came out positive, emphasizes in a Facebook post the professor of Health Policy Elias Mosialos, of the School of Economics and Politics London Science (LSE).
He points out that if a vaccinated person becomes infected, the coronavirus vaccine has not failed, as the vaccinated are protected from the serious infection and the subsequent complication of their health and admission to the hospital.
Mr. Mosialos reminds that vaccines perform three basic functions:
1. They can completely prevent infection by a pathogen.
2. If they fail to completely prevent the infection and catch a disease, they can protect us from the serious outcome of the symptoms caused by the pathogen, ie not to enter the hospital because we are seriously ill.
3. They can reduce the spread of the disease by us and since they have already protected us from the serious disease.
According to him, newer data from Israel – based on the picture of November 9 – confirm that vaccines are highly effective against catching the virus. The largest percentage of vaccinated people who have taken the third dose, around 90.2% -95.9%, are protected against infection. Also, protection against serious infection in those diagnosed positive was 79% -100% in those who had taken two doses and 95.1% -100% in those who had taken three doses.
In addition, data from Texas, USA, from January 15 to October 1, show that unvaccinated people were 45 times more likely to be infected with Covid-19 than fully vaccinated. Even more encouraging, according to Mosialos, is that the effect of vaccination in the community was strong in all age groups, with the greatest protective effect in children aged 12 to 17 years.
“At the same time,” he added, “looking again at the data from Texas, we see how unlucky the unvaccinated were.” Of those who contracted the virus from January 15, 2021 to October 1, 2021, those who were not vaccinated were 40 times more likely to die than those who were fully vaccinated.
Despite the excellent results of the vaccines, of course there are those who are not vaccinated. And as it seems, the appeal to philotimos or logic is not always the shortest distance from A to B. It is just a pity, however, because those who have not been vaccinated yet, have not sucked us who were vaccinated. “They are just risking their health, unnecessarily and without evidence,” he concludes.
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