I'm of the opinion that the thread should be used as intended, and not as some provax/antivax -slinging contest, but I'll correct you on this before going back to the shadows:
The COVID vaccine(s) are referred to as such, and correctly, because they
do grant immunization against the virus - just not perfect, absolute immunity, like the anti-vax crowd "demands" in order to take the shot. Matter of fact, most vaccines don't offer absolute immunity, and historically there have been multiple vaccines which outright
infected the people who took them. Take smallpox, for example: the original vaccines outright infected people with a different, less severe version of 'pox, called cowpox, and even the most widely available and used vaccine to treat smallpox, called Dryvax, wasn't 100%,
and had a non-insignificant percentage of serious, do ented side effects: "The vaccine is effective, providing successful immunogenicity in about 95% of vaccinated persons. Dryvax has serious adverse side-effects in about 1% to 2% of cases". Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532594/
So yeah, that's bull , the COVID vaccines, while obviously far away still from a %95 success rate, are still effective and worth taking.
Can we go back to discussing free agents now? That'd be great...