All you need to know – Digby's Hullabaloo

There have been many hundreds of events across trials

We often focus on "top line" efficacy

But pay scant attention to how well these vaccines prevent severe illness

These results are for events after vaccines have had a chance to work — typically 14 days after first shot
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) February 1, 2021

The reason to get the vaccine above all else is that even if you are one of the rare unlucky ones to get the virus after being vaccinated, YOU WILL NOT DIE! You won’t even end up in the hospital.

That takes COVID from a deadly threat to an illness we might get and recover from. That’s everything.