Sativied
Well-Known Member
Erring on the side of caution is generally wise but different from being pessimistic or even apocalyptic. Best to draw conclusions based on what we know instead of what we don’t know.
”In the past few weeks, over a million Israeli students returned to their classrooms,”
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”Some 4,298 people with new coronavirus infections were identified on the previous day, about half of them under the age of 19.”
Last sunday 43% of all cases were in age group 0-19.
That million is a 9th of its population, least vaccinated. Almost half a million more going back to school next week. Of course that’s going to lead to more infections for a while. Youngsters generally don’t get as sick but are superspreaders. Meanwhile 90% of people over 50 have had at least 1 jab,
That age distribution combined with the fact they partially opened up and the median age of the severe ill dropping everytime an older age group is vaccinated leaves no doubt when it comes to the effectiveness of vaccination.
As for variants, look at this beautiful rainbow:
COVID research: a year of scientific milestones
Nature waded through the literature on the coronavirus — and summarized key papers as they appeared.
www.nature.com
And then we’re not even talking about emerging treatments and cures yet.
It’ll be close to the latter sooner on later. Only question is how long and how many more casualties it will take.
