No, of course not, and I never asserted that they were.
Posted on: October 10, 2021 at 23:27:07 CT
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I think you may not have looked closely at the study. The participants were people who had never been infected with covid before.
If we are to believe the WHO studies that came to the conclusion that the infection fatality rate (IFR) for covid is .23%, and that the number of covid deaths in the US is over 700,000, then more than 95% of the country has already been infected.
If we use the Worldometers #s:
733,575 US deaths
÷ .0023 Infection Fatality Rate
= 96.36% of the US population has been infected.
Of course we can all probably agree that the number of covid deaths has been exaggerated but the bottom line is that most people in the US have already been infected with covid.
That undoubtedly includes most vaccinated people, so their rates of breakthrough infections will be FAR lower than is the case with the "virgin" population of those in the study.