ensuring a certain percentage remain unvaxxed protects
Only if they have no contact with others. Otherwise they're still in the game as the "Control" side of the experiment, and still capable of infecting others and fostering new variants.
The chance of having an ADE that takes you to emergency for treatment - not dying, just needing help - is very, very small (0.006%) compared to the chance of dying of covid (2%).
Thanks. For me the focus is on slowing the spread to something the healthcare systems can handle, and simply hoping any unforeseen effects are not too severe. Time will tell. Good Luck.
Only if they have no contact with others. Otherwise they're still in the game as the "Control" side of the experiment, and still capable of infecting others and fostering new variants.
The chance of having an ADE that takes you to emergency for treatment - not dying, just needing help - is very, very small (0.006%) compared to the chance of dying of covid (2%).
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/
Thanks. For me the focus is on slowing the spread to something the healthcare systems can handle, and simply hoping any unforeseen effects are not too severe. Time will tell. Good Luck.
As of July 27 2021: "A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) are less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others." (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html)