This is not related to the submitted article, but I am curious and it is related.
> 4. Israel's high vaccination rate isn't high enough.
> Unvaccinated people helped fuel the rapid spread of the virus while the country remained open for business in recent months with few serious restrictions.
> "That will lead to mass infection, which is exactly what we are seeing now," said Segal.
Okay, how does this happen if vaccinated people are much less likely to become infected or symptomatic? They have a high vaccination rate, so why are their numbers are worse than before? How come that small % of vaccinated people are the problem in a population that is almost completely vaccinated?
What is high enough, are we going to keep changing till it is 100%? What happens if the results are still bad after that? At >80% you would expect the numbers to be better, even if just so slightly, not WAY WORSE. Right? How can there be a mass infection if >80% of the population is fully vaccinated?
There are many questions that are not being answered. It is not enough to regurgitate the same things about the vaccine that do not seem to hold true when it comes to countries with high vaccination rate.
In any case, I expected countries with high vaccination rate to do better, not worse than they have done before.
If you expected that, then you probably assumed that other factors remained the same? That isn't the case.
First, countries with high vaccination rates have lightened other restrictions.
Second, countries with high vaccination rates may have many infected people, but few hospitalisations. Where I live, the share of infections that require hospitalisation has dropped by ~80% since the vaccinations started. (The number of infections as a share of population has gone up and down, the share of infections that require hospitalisation has shrunk steadily.)
> 4. Israel's high vaccination rate isn't high enough.
> Unvaccinated people helped fuel the rapid spread of the virus while the country remained open for business in recent months with few serious restrictions.
> "That will lead to mass infection, which is exactly what we are seeing now," said Segal.
From https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628....
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Okay, how does this happen if vaccinated people are much less likely to become infected or symptomatic? They have a high vaccination rate, so why are their numbers are worse than before? How come that small % of vaccinated people are the problem in a population that is almost completely vaccinated?
What is high enough, are we going to keep changing till it is 100%? What happens if the results are still bad after that? At >80% you would expect the numbers to be better, even if just so slightly, not WAY WORSE. Right? How can there be a mass infection if >80% of the population is fully vaccinated?
There are many questions that are not being answered. It is not enough to regurgitate the same things about the vaccine that do not seem to hold true when it comes to countries with high vaccination rate.
In any case, I expected countries with high vaccination rate to do better, not worse than they have done before.