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moralestapiatoday at 12:03 AM1 replyview on HN

Thanks for the data.

4,462 out of the whole population (of women etc.).

Would you subjectively describe that number as "almost zero"?


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 1:27 AM

> Would you subjectively describe that number as "almost zero"?

Sure. If the only effect were on under-30s, this wouldn’t be a great vaccine. What 5,000 people is good for, however, is confidently measuring decline in a cohort. Zero deaths, even against a baseline of tens, strongly implies this should cross into the tend or hundreds of thousands over the next decades in populations that keep vaccination rates up.

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