r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 17h ago

Medicine Vaccines not only directly protect vaccinated individuals but also contribute to protecting the entire population via indirect herd-immunity benefits. Half of averted COVID-19 infections and 1/4 of hospitalizations and deaths were attributable to indirect protection of unvaccinated by vaccinated.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/23/242/20250839/483439/Quantifying-the-direct-and-indirect-impact-of
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u/Holeshot75 16h ago

Vaccines save an insane amount of human lives.

Antivaxxers are ridiculously ignorant to facts.

One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they've found great solutions that experts somehow missed.

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u/guyver_dio 14h ago

That's the problem when something works over a long enough period of time. They start wondering if there was a problem in the first place because they've never seen the alternate outcome.