Hard to believe how many currently infected there are, after masking, mandates, distancing, and 450 million vaccinations!
So many people vaxxed this year - particularly those over 70 years old. Yet cases continue to rise and for now in the most vaccinated states. That may change since viruses well they virus.
It’s amazing folks think the vaccine is a public health choice rather than a person health risk assessment. Things have been set in motion which can’t be undone. Crazy days.
I do not recall the vaccine mfgr’s ever stating the vaccines would give strong protection against infection.
And, even if the vaccines did give good protection against infection by “original” COVID, and we had 80% of the population fully vaccinated or otherwise immune, Delta’s virion levels in nasal passages would (or will) in fairly short order infect the 20% vulnerable. That more than explains the current numbers of cases, esp. given that very little real mitigation is occurring in most areas.
CDC’s hopelessly bad public “education” effort has not helped, either.