Since the vaccine only protects from severe disease, hospitalization, and death, I'm a bit concerned about the #covid19 symptom of loss/distortion of sense of taste & smell, which some people lost over 1 year ago and still haven't recovered. Is that still a high risk even to vaccinated people?
@resist1984 Hi! As far as I've read, modified taste is not even in the 'expected symptoms' list, so I wouldn't worry. I got astra zeneca and all symptoms vanished after two days, same holds for everyone I know. Same goes for Pfizer.
I would expect the same from the others, but can't guarantee anything there.
@Santral the 100% efficacy rate is only w.r.t preventing death. Consider J&J, which is "66% effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19". I'm not sure where loss of taste/smell is in their scale, but the high 80%+ efficacy figures are for hospitalization prevention.
@resist1984 interesting! I thought it prevented everything, but what you ask is currently an open question.
@resist1984 it protects you from the disease, and thus from all of its symptoms. Why would it not be the case?
I think it in this case it seems more prevalent because of the survivor bias... literally