by Herd immunity will not comeYou don't need to get a vaccine now as the new Delta variant means everyone will get Covid, although the infected unvaccinated will become a burden to hospitals, taking up their valuable time and resources, as well as causing unnecessary expense I will be getting a third booster covid vaccine along with the flu shot when it's offered here in the UK. Andrew Pollard, Oxford vaccine teamClear that the delta variant can infect people already vaccinatedMaking herd immunity impossible to reach even with high vaccine uptakeAnyone who is still unvaccinated will, at some point, meet the virus. We don't have anything that will stop transmission, so I think we are in a situation where herd immunity is not a possibilityand I suspect the virus will throw up a new variant
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Herd immunity will not come
You don't need to get a vaccine now as the new Delta variant means everyone will get Covid, although the infected unvaccinated will become a burden to hospitals, taking up their valuable time and resources, as well as causing unnecessary expense
I will be getting a third booster covid vaccine along with the flu shot when it's offered here in the UK.
Andrew Pollard, Oxford vaccine team
Clear that the delta variant can infect people already vaccinated
Making herd immunity impossible to reach even with high vaccine uptake
Anyone who is still unvaccinated will, at some point, meet the virus.
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
Angela Merkel
Ending free testing from Oct 11
Department of Health
https://www.gov.uk/government/collect...
UK vaccination, prevented 60,000 deaths and 66,900 hospitalisations
Never be enough to stop Covid from spreading
Winter wave inevitable
Professor Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia
The concept of herd immunity is unachievable
because we know the infection will spread in unvaccinated populations
and the latest data is suggesting that two doses is probably only 50 percent protective
Time to change the way the data is collected and recorded as the virus becomes endemic
We need to start moving away from just reporting infections,
or just reporting positive cases admitted to hospital,
to actually start reporting the number of people who are ill because of Covid
Otherwise we are going to be frightening ourselves with very high numbers that actually don't translate into disease burden
Sajid Javid
Preparations to offer Covid booster jabs from next month
Waiting for the final advice from the JCVI
Over-50s set to be offered the flu jab at the same time as booster.