And now surveillance data from the UK is starting to confirm that Israel was right and CDC was wrong. Vaccine efficacy? About 50-60%. There you have it, folks: the vaccines are NOT 90% effective. You will end up in the doctor’s office or worse if you continue with this assumption. I honestly don’t know what is going on at CDC.
In a recent interview, Dr. Gottlieb summed up what my thoughts are. CDC does a lot of good things. They are good at surveillance, but this pandemic reveals the need for an agency that can give accurate data in real time, and we just don’t have that. CDC tends to be about 2-4 weeks behind on pretty much everything, which is unfortunate.
The good news? We’ll probably get to some level of herd immunity within the next 2-4 weeks…whether we want to or not.