Is the Efficacy of the Vaccine Effective?

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The corono virus will increase your risk of death at any age by about 30%. You're unlikely to die if you're a young person and you get coronovires, it's true. But your low probability will be uppe by about 30 % should you get infected with corono vires. It's not necessary for you to needlessly face this increased risk of death. That's part of being a 20 first century citizen of a country like ours. I ca go back to this first question, about the efficat value of the vaccine. So is that your understanding in terms of what the what the efficacy is ofye explanation? Yesand you had asked her a little bit earlier

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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