Four COVID-related deaths over Christmas, weekly case numbers drop

Older folk are more vulnerable to COVID (plus of course those with chronic illness), yet only 65.7 per cent of those eligible over 50 have had the full four doses and a bit over 20% over over 16’s have only had 2 Jabs.

That’s a lot of people with waiting immunity.

Vousie,
In what way are we still getting a very large number of hospitalisations and death?

The numbers are tiny in both real and relative terms from what they would have been without those high vaccination rates with the early Covid variants.

Vacination will not protect you against the future mutations of the virus. You would think people would try to get an understanding on how vacines work before they share their lack of wisdom.

Exactly DrLin, and what’s worse is the vaccines have created evolutionary pressure for the virus to mutate and become more immune evasive than they would have been. Basically, in the absence of a vaccine it would be one and done, everyone would catch it, there would be unfortunate loss of life of the 0.1% of the population but like India the 99.9% would be protected for life. Instead there is vaccine evading variants like XBB and has made this pandemic into a protracted nightmare fueling constant

Exactly DrLin and what’s worse is the vaccines have created evolutionary pressure on the virus to mutate. That is where XBB came from as the virus tried to evolve past the new vaccines introduced each year. The Spanish flu was over in 2 years yet COVID has been going on for 3+ and big pharma does not want this gravy train to end!