With the Re number of the Delta variant circulating and discussions of boosters vs ongoing vaccination efforts, I found this thread incredibly helpful & informative!
Tl;dr -- vaccinating the un-vaxxed >> boosters, but either way, good odds we'll need precautions as Delta spreads
Tl;dr -- vaccinating the un-vaxxed >> boosters, but either way, good odds we'll need precautions as Delta spreads
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The CDCβs recent announcement that the Delta variant has an average reproductive number of 6-9 has a lot of people concerned & many are asking me about whether this means we need COVID boosters.
Letβs talk through the math of how we might decide!