Oh I can read my friend.
As of September 4th, Dr. Fauci stated "Three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will offer you full protection against the coronavirus right now". Pfizer states that "Based on evidence from clinical trials in people 16 years and older, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected." According to Pfizer and BioNTech's website, "The vaccine was 100% effective against severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
Not only that, it was said that based on a clinical trial among adolescents ages 12-15 "A two-dose series was 100% effective against COVID-19, which was measured between 7 days and 4 months after the second dose".
This efficacy was supposed to last for 6 months against potential variants, not reduce by 1/3rd in 3 months. Again, they didn't qualify these statements, these are the "facts", which are now falsified by changing circumstances. You and I, like many others, were inclined to believe them. I'm open to further vaccination, but there needs to be more transparency with respect to a reduction in efficacy.
Like I said, imperfect language. Biden has been guilty of it too. I don't think there's anything nefarious about it, I just think Fauci especially has been tasked with talking about this publicly A LOT, and similar to a radio show host or podcaster, if you're tasked with talking long enough into microphones, you're eventually going to say something stupid, or in this case inaccurate.
What I believe they're trying to say with that is they believe you will be very (for lack of a better word) protected against severe disease, hospitalizations, and death with the vaccines. The data has borne this out.
I haven't looked into the studies you quoted, but I wouldn't be surprised if that one did show the vaccine to be 100% effective against severe disease, because as I posted earlier, the people who have gotten sick enough to be hospitalized are either all or nearly all unvaccinated. Many hospitals around the country regularly report that their COVID patients are 99-100% unvaccinated.
Same with the adolescent study, though again I haven't looked into these in detail. The vaccines offer good protection from this. Even with Delta, and its early, but sings point to that possibly being the case with Omicron as well.
I can understand the confusion, and like I said, some people have used imperfect language at times (I'm sure I have as well), but I think a lot of that can just be chalked up to minor human errors in speaking.
It's unfortunate, because it just gives people who were hesitant to trust the science ammunition to say, "see they were wrong" or "see they didn't tell the truth." When really it's just people solely trying to help people stay safe and healthy (at their own political expense) during a pretty unprecedented time in this current era of civilization, and because of that nobody is batting 1.000.
