Inevitable response from the UK:
The Delta variant has wrecked any chance of herd immunity in Britain, a panel of experts including the head of the Oxford vaccine team said as they called for an end to mass testing so Britain can start to live with Covid-19.
Scientists said it was time to accept that there was no way of stopping the virus spreading through the entire population, and monitoring people with mild symptoms was no longer helpful.
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who led the Oxford vaccine team, said it was clear that the Delta variant could infect people who had been vaccinated, which made herd immunity impossible to reach even with high vaccine uptake.
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"We don't have anything that will stop transmission, so I think we are in a situation where herd immunity is not a possibility and I suspect the virus will throw up a new variant that is even better at infecting vaccinated individuals."
Welcome to the post pandemic world, where life expectancy / quality of life just got reduced for all, thanks mainly to global failure to do what was needed when it was needed.
from New York Times:
- 18-month drop in life expectancy. The coronavirus pandemic was largely responsible for shaving a year and a half from the life expectancy of Americans in 2020, the steepest drop in the United States since World War II, according to federal statistics released on Wednesday.
While it could be easy to dismiss that as "well that's because there was a pandemic", endemic covid will still continue to kill the elderly, and the immunity offered by vaccines is significantly reduced in that age group.
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