dropdeadfred, You see the vaccines working as well as many guessed they would from the beginning. No expert ever said the vaccines would be perfect.
When America was about 45% one shot, Australia was 5%. Sad to say in another month or so, if not before, Australia will have moved to a healthier vaccination rate than America.
How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States
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Many stumble on omission bias: “We would rather not do something and have something bad happen, than do something and have something bad happen,” explained Alison M. Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing .. https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/profiles/37-alison-m-buttenheim .
People are flummoxed by numerical risk. “We pay more attention to numerators, such as ‘16 adverse events,’ than we do to denominators, such as ‘per million vaccine doses,’ ” Dr. Buttenheim said.
A concept called “ambiguity aversion” is also involved, she added. “Parents would like to be told that vaccines are 100 percent safe,” she said. “But that’s not a standard we hold any medical treatment to.”