As we noted in a previous entry the vaccines mitigate against the virus, they are not preventative. Vaccinated people can still get infected, albeit hopefully having antibodies to attack the viral attack. However they can still die as a result, they can still infect others. Does this mean vaccines are useless. Unlike my 1944 smallpox vaccine, which still works, my 3 COVID injections are about 95% effective. That means I still have a 1 in 20 chance of getting infected and with a mortality rate between 2 and 10% I have at the worst a 1 in 200 chance of dying from the virus. That is frankly worse than AIDS but better than rabies!
Thus vaccines are useful but not a sine qua non. We need therapeutics to deal with the infections. They now seem to be on the front door step. However the politicians have so messed up the message that people are grossly confused. Pity!
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