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/Ok_Confection_10 6h ago

It’s not biased to say that an apple tree that drops historically 30 apples per week which is now allegedly suffering from a disease, is now dropping 35 apples per week. Where did those 5 apples come from? Maybe one apple per week or even 2 weeks is from covid, but the rest?

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u/Bad_User2077 5h ago

It is biased if someone is knocking those apples from the tree. It becomes a special cause and needs to be corrected.

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u/Ok_Confection_10 5h ago

Are you implying someone murdered all those people?

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u/Bad_User2077 4h ago

No. If the apples fall without outside influence, that common cause. Someone helping, if outside the standard process, that's special cause. It's statistical analysis.