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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (480473)10/2/2021 11:54:14 AM
From: NAG1  Read Replies (1) of 541659
 
cf,

Sad thing is that the vaccine is 95% or more effective - the antiviral is only 50% effective. Seems like it is much better to have higher rate of protection that doesn't involve the disease at all.
True. But having both on hand is better than either one separately. You can use this for someone who cannot take the vaccine because of immune compromise. You can also give it to someone who tests positive for the virus who is vaccinated but hits a lot of the risk factors and maybe keep them out of the hospital. And for the unvaccinated, it may keep enough of them out of the hospital so they don't over run the system.

But one of the bigger things is if we come up against a variant that the vaccine doesn't do a good job protecting against. It gives us another line of attack/protection.
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