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The 95% effectiveness was based on the version of COVID that was circulating at the time. No one said it would be 95% effective against every possible mutation. Claiming the results of those studies are wrong instead of a result of a changing environment is itself a misunderstanding of science.

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Claiming that the vaccines were necessary to "end the pandemic" without factoring in the possibility of variants for which the vaccines were not as effective was not scientific thinking.

Maybe they expected 99%+ to get vaccinated before a vaccine-avoiding variant got out.

They expected 7 billion+ people to get vaccinated?

Vaccines are still necessary, they just aren't sufficient.

The media didn’t say “Vaccines are 95% effective, except for mutations”. The media said “Vaccines are 95% effective.”

The media is all lies and propaganda. Stop paying attention.

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