bmcgonig
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Exactly I care much more about vaccine effectiveness against death, severe illness, and long covid than effectiveness vs infection. Also VE will decline with time from vaccination so one would expect the era of newer strains to be associated with less effectiveness This point is rather obvious but I didn't see it addressed in thee "limitations" section of thee preprint.
I believe that the protection against disease is already present given previous vaccination. I haven’t heard anything that says that a new booster will increase that long-term help. Maybe I missed it. If that is true then I’m not sure of it’s usefulness if you get XBB.