cardinalkarp wrote: ↑May 17 21, 12:27 pm
Not to bring COVID talk to the Blues playoff thread, but maybe after seeing this happen to both the Blues and Yankees this vaccine isn’t as effective as what’s being portrayed?
I guess that depends on what we are calling "portrayed". I believe both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are ~90% effective at preventing contraction of COVID-19. That still means you have a 1 out of 10 chance of contracting COVID if exposed (about the chance of Matt Carpenter getting a hit in 2021). That's good, but certainly not perfect.
The real values of the vaccines are effectiveness against severe cases of COVID, where the proven rates are more like 99%. And in achieving eventual herd immunity. If you start limiting the chances of spreading the virus in a close encounter from like 75%+ to 10% for each interaction, the spread of the virus really starts to fizzle out.
(I should also note, my comment regarding being peeved at the vaccine effectiveness was tongue-in-cheek.)