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FXLAX
I’m not sure what you mean by 40% less effectiveness. Everything I’ve read is that cases don’t matter. It’s hospitalizations (flattening the curve) and deaths. And that the vaccine is preventing the overwhelming majority of those here. That it’s almost exclusively those not vaccinated who are being hospitalized and dying. Not that that means FedEx will mandate it. No one knows that.
The latest data on the Pfizer vaccine specifically is that it is less than 40% effective at preventing infection from the delta variant of COVID.
But we are talking about FedEx here. For FedEx, cases matter a lot. The last time I popped positive I got the news while I was working out. I never had significant symptoms. But because I was positive, I was pulled from a 90 hour trip. Fortunately, I hadn’t been in close contact with any other FedEx pilots before testing positive, but if I had, they would have been pulled from their trips. The person who popped positive next to me in the AOC resulted in at least three other pilots being removed from trips. I’m sure they are all fine, but the ripple effect at FedEx is huge. So cases matter a lot to FedEx.
Finally, my whole point on this is that mandating vaccines for people who have already had COVID is unnecessary. It’s very easy to determine who has already had COVID. Like me, they have a document showing a positive COVID test. That document works everywhere I’ve showed it. In much of the world, proof of COVID recovery is counted the same as a vaccine certificate. The company definitely knows who has tested positive. And that number is growing every day. It’s something that needs to be added to the discussion, because if the latest data coming from Israel turns out to be true, the average FedEx pilot is 13 times more likely to be exposed to COVID from a vaccinated pilot than a previously recovered pilot.