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Originally Posted by Mr K
Up 32% in the UK in the last week. We've got complacent. More worryingly hospital admissions are also spiralling. Over reaction to under reaction, we just can't get it right.
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But if numbers are low, it only takes a small increase to get a big percentage number.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
People get re-infected as the virus mutates, so attaining herd immunity is a problem. A number of people including your glorious leader have caught Covid on multiple occasions. That hardly speaks to immunity, herd or otherwise, does it?
As Seph has mentioned, the efficacy rates in the Chinese vaccines are the issue in that country.
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But as we get infected our immune systems get to recognise Covid type viruses. Unless the mutation is huge there will be some protection and over the herd less dramatic effect.
The common cold was devastating to populations that had never seen it but much less so to most people in Europe or of European origin where it had become endemic.