Quite a contradiction here.
Two Covid jabs 'should' still slash risk of dying from Omicron or being hospitalised by 84% ('should' would imply that they simply don't know and that it isn't guaranteed that the genetic vax will work) even if they offer virtually zero protection against symptoms (Seriously? Have they just admitted that the vaccines are pretty much ineffective? Certainly looks like it), SAGE estimates
SAGE being the 'science', no doubt bought and paid for by the likes of Pfizer, Gates etc, that the UK government are putting their trust in. How on earth can any 'prediction' they make be taken seriously these days?
Two Covid jabs should still slash the risk of dying from Omicron by up to 84 per cent but a booster is twice as good at preventing someone from falling ill, according to official estimates.
SAGE modelling published over the weekend worked off the assumption that two Pfizer doses give 83.7 per cent protection against hospitalisation and death from the highly-evolved strain.
A two-dose course of AstraZeneca's vaccine was estimated to reduce the risk of severe disease from Omicron by 77.1 per cent. However, both vaccine brands were assumed to wane within three to six months.
At that point, the Government's scientific advisers believe protection from two AstraZeneca jabs could be as low as 61.3 per cent and 67.6 per cent for Pfizer.
A booster dose of Pfizer's vaccine was estimated to top-up immunity to over 93 per cent, regardless of which jab someone was originally given — providing a similar level of protection as two doses did against Delta.
The estimates were presented in modelling by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Saturday and are based on lab studies looking at antibodies. The model warned that the vaccine-resistant Omicron variant may lead to more hospitalisations than England's second wave last January, when up to 4,000 infected patients were being admitted to NHS facilities every day.