“…From the article: ““breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%.”
And: “about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%”
Good luck, unvaccinated people!”
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As the most infectious Brazilian and Indian variants (see post 19 above) become more predominant, I expect a slight uptick in the herd immunity threshold. The vaccinated certainly are exposed as much as the unvaccinated but those exposures, for the most part, just strengthen the immunity of the vaccinated… but can have more deleterious effects on the unvaccinated who did not previously have COVID-19.
Hopefully we will quickly increase our count of individual immunities toward the higher herd immunity levels to protect the remaining unvaccinated vulnerable people.
“a slight uptick in the herd immunity threshold. “
Related to that is that “distancing” practices that worked against the China variant won’t against the more transmissable ones.
I think that is a big factor in the spread of Delta in rural areas.
We have a “natural” distancing that’s worked so far, but now we need to do more- or get vaxxed.
Just my impression of course.