We have giant populations of people who refused the vaccines. We also have a giant resurgence of measles now because those people are so large in number and so influential. Long covid is far more prevalent in those populations than anywhere else despite the seemingly blanket belief that covid was inconsequential among them.
The trials for the Pfizer vaccine came back as 95% effective. Not sure what paper you're holding saying blanket immunity for all time but it was probably political not scientific. It then did an insane pivot with omicron. Way too many mutations at once for any vaccine to accommodate.
The science is very broad and very clear on all of these matters. I feel bad if politicians or news agencies lied to you but my advice is to take an aggregate of every country / health authority in the entire world and disregard your own anecdotes / the Joe Rogans of the world. There's just no way that a conspiracy can be as far reaching as what you're implying.
Actually 99%
But it turned out it was only 37% effective and then they stopped reporting the efficacy. On to boosters!
And then the COVID virus mutated, reducing the efficacy of that specific vaccine variant.
Current real-world data shows latest updated Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization by roughly 50% to 60% and lower the risk of urgent care or emergency department visits by 50% to 75%.
Yale medical regularly updates efficacy data on a roughly six month(? IIRC) cycle, other countries also routinely publish.
stand up when any of the numbers you mention show up!
* note: you have to wait a bit since everyone said it was 100% effective
Maybe everyone you talked to or US press perhaps - here we ran with medical trials and epidemiologists.
> everyone said it was 100% effective
You're quoting idiots then - or second / third hand press reporting, or US/UK officials pressured by the US/UK admin of the time.
Not everyone lived in a politically captured shitshow.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
also my source was i was cognizant during the 2020-2023 years and paying very close attention to every presser. the headlines comport with my memory of the reporting and the timeline of the efficacy decay.