Perhaps it's much more simple. Forget all these calculations. If Pfizer's data indicates that over 20k people need to be vaxed to save one life, then shouldn't that be the end of the discussion? 900k people in the US supposedly died "from" covid. Let's assume that's true and they didn't just die "with" covid. So in order to save thos…
Perhaps it's much more simple. Forget all these calculations. If Pfizer's data indicates that over 20k people need to be vaxed to save one life, then shouldn't that be the end of the discussion? 900k people in the US supposedly died "from" covid. Let's assume that's true and they didn't just die "with" covid. So in order to save those 900k people, we would have had to vaccinate 900k x 20k = 18 billion. Uh... there are only 7.5B on the planet. If we vaxed everyone with Pfizer, we save 375k people. And this is for a virus with an IFR of ~0.4%. So not only does almost everyone who gets it survive, but we're going to vax everyone to get almost no benefit, whether there are adverse reactions or not. What am I missing?
Perhaps it's much more simple. Forget all these calculations. If Pfizer's data indicates that over 20k people need to be vaxed to save one life, then shouldn't that be the end of the discussion? 900k people in the US supposedly died "from" covid. Let's assume that's true and they didn't just die "with" covid. So in order to save those 900k people, we would have had to vaccinate 900k x 20k = 18 billion. Uh... there are only 7.5B on the planet. If we vaxed everyone with Pfizer, we save 375k people. And this is for a virus with an IFR of ~0.4%. So not only does almost everyone who gets it survive, but we're going to vax everyone to get almost no benefit, whether there are adverse reactions or not. What am I missing?