Wanted to send you 2 articles today that indicate when an epidemic can be downgraded to endemic for an infectious disease. What is an epidemic? An epidemic is when a disease affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. That is what was happening in
Whether AztraZeneca (which is like J&J in being an adenovirus/DNA vaccine) or Pfizer (mRNA vaccine), symptomatic infection massively reduced after even 1 dose and importantly so was asymptomatic infection with CT<30 on PCR (at which point extremely hard to transmit).
And at 62% rate 1st dose vax in Israel ( https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations), that country had 0 daily COVID-19 deaths for 1st time in 10 months (again with mingling, etc.) leading country to fairly conclude they will reach herd immunity without vaccinating children https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reports-no-new-daily-covid-deaths-for-first-time-in-10-months/
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