I read same - in J&J study (which included SA variant), no one who received the vax died, which to me is the most important. 85% effective against severe/hospitalization level event.
I don't know why anyone cares about people who don't want a vaccine. Good! Don't get one. Move me up the line. It's as uninteresting a story to me as anything to do with any royal family. And that's the bottom of the barrel.
The reason you should care about people who refuse the vaccine is that the virus will spread and mutate among unvaccinated people. No vaccine provides perfect protection, and mutations only make your vaccine less effective. Also, there's no vacine available yet for my grandchilderen, so anti-vaxxers just make it more dangerous for them. It's really gonna require the vast majority of the whole world to be vaccinated before the pandemic is under control.
Any side effects from the second one? Did you get the Phizer? I've talked with a handful of people who had some side effects after the second one but usually only for a day or so after. Chills, fatigue, low grade fever, sore arm from shot.
Herd immunity is going to be a combination of vaccination and people who have had COVID-19 and recovered. While COVID-19 is obviously dangerous to more people than seasonal flu, it's also true that most people who get infected do not have major issues. Given that there are an unknown number of people who had COVID-19 in 2020 and didn't know it, that means a certain percentage already are at most lower risk of becoming carriers.
