Berenson has not discovered anything except a study confirming what everyone who was paying attention already knew.
First, that people who get the virus hardly ever get re-infected. This has been acknowledged to be very rare right from the early days.
Second, the vaccines are not 100% effective. Here are some numbers about the effectiveness of the common vaccines: Pfizer - 95%, Moderna - >90%, Johnson & Johnson - >72% ... more details here: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison
So there's no surprise, no big secret revealed, just an apparently proper study from Israel confirming what was already suspected - and it's worth repeating: that the vaccines are not as effective at preventing infection by the virus, compared to the protection given by surviving the virus. I'll put that another way: people who died from the virus are not represented in this study. The authors talk about having 16,000 people in their study but don't forget that about 7,000 Israelis have died from covid, and they don't figure into this paper.
To use this study in a rant about being lied to is ludicrous.
And I note that while this pre-print (not peer reviewed) study came out 4 days ago you are suggesting that people should have been making different decisions a year ago based on Berenson's silly interpretation of it.
Berenson has not discovered anything except a study confirming what everyone who was paying attention already knew.
First, that people who get the virus hardly ever get re-infected. This has been acknowledged to be very rare right from the early days.
Second, the vaccines are not 100% effective. Here are some numbers about the effectiveness of the common vaccines: Pfizer - 95%, Moderna - >90%, Johnson & Johnson - >72% ... more details here: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison
So there's no surprise, no big secret revealed, just an apparently proper study from Israel confirming what was already suspected - and it's worth repeating: that the vaccines are not as effective at preventing infection by the virus, compared to the protection given by surviving the virus. I'll put that another way: people who died from the virus are not represented in this study. The authors talk about having 16,000 people in their study but don't forget that about 7,000 Israelis have died from covid, and they don't figure into this paper.
To use this study in a rant about being lied to is ludicrous.
And I note that while this pre-print (not peer reviewed) study came out 4 days ago you are suggesting that people should have been making different decisions a year ago based on Berenson's silly interpretation of it.