Thanks, Gerry. I understand the utility of the rate for public health vaccine campaigns and the limited clinical use. I still don't understand the use of it for monitoring and reporting on outbreaks.
Thanks, Gerry. I understand the utility of the rate for public health vaccine campaigns and the limited clinical use. I still don't understand the use of it for monitoring and reporting on outbreaks.
If I see a high magnitude transmission uptick with high single-dose uptake in a new outbreak, it's a rapid, surrogate indicator for me that we might be looking at something with the transmissivity, and ability to evade immunity, of omicron. It's just another data point, and a pretty good surrogate.
Thanks, Gerry. I understand the utility of the rate for public health vaccine campaigns and the limited clinical use. I still don't understand the use of it for monitoring and reporting on outbreaks.
If I see a high magnitude transmission uptick with high single-dose uptake in a new outbreak, it's a rapid, surrogate indicator for me that we might be looking at something with the transmissivity, and ability to evade immunity, of omicron. It's just another data point, and a pretty good surrogate.