Numbers are used to try to persuade people to get vaccinated, but there aren’t enough numbers to help people navigate once they get their shots
A year and a half into the pandemic, people are more confused than ever about the risks they face, and that goes for experts and lay people alike. Cases and hospitalisation are going up in almost every US state, but the messages we’re getting are mixed about the risks to the fully vaccinated.
That leaves the public with many unanswered questions. Should we wait till we get a third shot before we go back to having social lives? How much will a booster help? Are vaccines wearing off or is it just that they’re not quite as good at protecting people from the Delta variant? “We now have over 102,000 hospitalised Americans, and we have no idea what proportion are vaccinated or not vaccinated,” Topol told me.
It’s hard to judge whether we save more lives by giving all Americans booster shots, or by shipping our excess vaccine doses overseas where they can help protect us from another, more dangerous variant emerging in a country with a low vaccination rate, the way Delta emerged from India’s monstrous spring surge.
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