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Originally Posted by Taf
2 families on our road now have 3 generations in hospital with severe symptoms of the virus. The first to show a positive test were their kids attending the same school.
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There will always be spillover and always some for whom the vaccine doesn't work.
It's quoted as 95% effective against hospitalisations but that still means for every 100 people who get it that 5 will end up in hospital, but that's no doubt much better than without it.
They shouldn't be closing schools and won't admit otherwise but kids are absolutely super spreaders of covid. You can see this in the figures. But if kids go home or to their grandparents and either they're not vaccinated or their immunity has waned then they will get it too and it will also easily spread between unvaccinated kids sat in a classroom all day.
No doubt this trend is likely to continue and spillover into older groups is being watched, until either enough kids have been vaccinated or had covid to slow it down.
The kids themselves will likely be fine if they get it though. And the effect of it spreading into other groups will be lessened by vaccines.