A picture being worth a thousand words, three graphs, courtesy of Our World In Data, suffice to tell the whole story of the failure of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines against the Omicron variant.
Historically, coronavirus normally mutate at slow rates, because they have co-evolved with us and animal reservoirs and are at a relative fitness peak. So, the vaccine must have seemed like a good answer to public health.
The problem is that SARS-CoV-2 is lab-made, and the original release was not highly optimized for humans or animals. As a result the main strains are changing like crazy: in less than a year vaccinated people have negative protection, and even prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 isn't that helpful.
A picture can be worth a thousand words and here these pictures are easily worth three thousand.
Is Israel really that low comparatively in terms of share of the population that had been fully vaccinated? I thought it was much higher than that for them especially as they are now on the second booster/ fourth shot.
Vaccine Failure Against Omicron In Three Graphs
Historically, coronavirus normally mutate at slow rates, because they have co-evolved with us and animal reservoirs and are at a relative fitness peak. So, the vaccine must have seemed like a good answer to public health.
The problem is that SARS-CoV-2 is lab-made, and the original release was not highly optimized for humans or animals. As a result the main strains are changing like crazy: in less than a year vaccinated people have negative protection, and even prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 isn't that helpful.
A picture can be worth a thousand words and here these pictures are easily worth three thousand.
Is Israel really that low comparatively in terms of share of the population that had been fully vaccinated? I thought it was much higher than that for them especially as they are now on the second booster/ fourth shot.