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The article is correct--the effectiveness measurements you are referring to by the MoH (or whatever it is called there) and the mayo clinic are referring to the vaccine's ability to prevent either symptomatic infection or infection period, not hospitalizations/severe illness which is what the U Penn article is discussing. So the vaccines have been great in preventing someone from being in the hospital, from getting the sniffles, only so-so.
The article can’t be 100% correct. Even if you take the effectiveness argument out of the equation… it has 2 different charts that completely contradict each other in reference to total numbers in the over 50 age group. And that was the only category I looked at. I didn’t even bother to look at the rest once I noticed that.