"Omicron is milder" seems to have become the new "COVID is no worse than flu". (View Post)

Nearly every day about a dozen scientists tell us it's too early to say. Maybe you missed all those statements. We've got evidence from South Africa that on average people in hospital who a… (View Post)

I'm ignoring nothing. My comment was about the findings shown, which are about antibodies. What these data appear to show is that two doses of vaccination alone was never sufficient to produce 5… (View Post)

I hadn't seen the Swedish study that was discussed here previously. Apart from the two outliers in the South African study, the results of the two seem consistent. The immune escape would actual… (View Post)

If I read the preprint correctly, that factor of 41 is the geometric mean, but it's actually dominated by a couple of outliers (Fig 1B; two of the three big drops on the plot are apparently samp… (View Post)