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Originally Posted by opendoor
Given that:
1) Immunity from a pre-Omicron infection is basically useless against Omicron
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Is it? And does it even matter at this point considered almost everyone who has been infected has been infected by Omicron or will be? So any natural immunity is from Omicron infection, or from the new variant.
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2) Immunity from an Omicron infection doesn't seem to last particularly long in many people (some who were infected in Jan-Feb have been getting infected again in Apr-Jul)
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What are you calling infection? Testing positive? Getting sick? Getting not as sick? The t-cell response from a previous Omicron infection is still robust enough to prevent serious illness, no?
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3) There is no longer a simple and reliable way to verify if someone has been infected now that PCR tests aren't used as much.
What do you expect authorities to do differently? Never mind the fact that beyond crossing a border, there is basically nothing that requires a particular vaccination status any more.
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Clear guidelines on what people can expect from the mRNA vaccine, including updated efficiency, risk expectations, etc. This should include booster efficiency. As in whether or not subsequent boosters are eliciting the same immune response. I've read that they are not. This is a real problem.
Why? Because perhaps like you said more focus should be put on Novavax and other options, including better treatment options. Plus the dreaded 'eat better, exercise, take your vitamins' talk. We are 2 years in. That is more than enough time for people to do more than just go get a booster shot whenever it is available.
Most people I talk too are either boosted and mad that they can't go get boosted again, or they are double-vaccinated and have ZERO interest in getting another shot. This lines up with some polling that was done recently. In both cases perhaps the approach isn't the correct one.