Thanks for the link.
I looked at the Axios article, as well as the preprint that the Axios (and other) articles are based upon.
I'm not sure how to state this without seeming condescending, so I'll just state it simply. I'm a physician who has spent the past 30 yrs at either federal research institutes or academic medical centers, focused on lab and clinical research. So while I'm not an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert, I have a working knowledge of clinical trials and the drug approval process.
Based on the data I've seen (see below), as well as trusted sources (NIH, CDC, Hopkins) it is abundantly clear that the ongoing pandemic is driven by the unvaccinated. Choosing which media sources to listen to is difficult in these days of rampant mis-information. I think you go with respected mainstream sources. Time has proven the fringe sources (hydroxychloroquine is the answer) are usually incorrect. Experts are expert because they have spent years studying the subject. I'm not saying that CDC/NIH are always correct, but I am saying I'd trust them over some DO stating that vaccines magnetize people.
Unvaccinated people seem to fall into three categories:
1) Hardcore non vaxxers--Jenny McCarthy, Kennedy, Hasidic jews, etc.
2) Trump/Fox/ONN followers, who dont want to listen to science or govt experts--spurred on by the right wing media
3) Black people who are concerned that the government is "experimenting on them"-- spurred on by the left wing media
The article cited by Axios is interesting, but has three significant flaws.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v1
1) The authors generated "triplets" that had tested positive for Covid. Each "triplet " consisted of one unvaccinated person, one Moderna vaxxed person, and one Pfizer vaxxed. They controlled for sex, race, state of origin, but not age. This was a bad mistake. Age is well known to be the single most important variable for serious Covid disease.
2) The authors based their analysis on databases of patients within the Mayo system. Patients in the Mayo system who didnt receive a vaccine within the Mayo system were considered unvaccinated. But these people could have received a vaccine at CVS, or a football stadium.
3) The widely quoted 42% figure is based on Table 4. In this table, 3 and 4 people who received the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, respectively, contracted Covid. Its really difficult to make any broad statements on vaccine efficacy or policy based on, literally, 3 and 4 patients.
Due to a perfect storm, we are currently in a pandemic of mis-information as well as virus.
My advice is to pay attention to several well-respected, public sources of information. CDC, FDA, NIH officials, experts from academia. And your primary care physician.