As someone who has now had two doses of AstraZeneca, a Pfizer booster, a Moderna booster and a little over a month ago a Novavax booster, have been on over 50 flights since COVID arrive in June last year and have dodged COVID thus far I think I can say they work. That being said, I am not relying solely on the vaccines like most people, I wear N95 respirators when indoors and practice social distancing whenever possible. But I’ve done it all, giving talks at conferences in Glasgow, visiting relatives in Canada, vacationing in Hawaii, without any issues. Now I know someone is gonna say, how do you know you didn’t have COVID during this time, you could be asymptomatic? I take rapid antigen tests once a week regardless of symptoms given my high risk status (immunocompromised).
I think the key take away is we need to learn to deal with COVID. We have the tools to return back to a normal where we can be both safe and enjoy the activities we had prior to the pandemic.
-RooFlyer88