• When sufficient people are vaccinated the virus hopefully hits a lot of dead ends for transmission and the R number plummets. Then it’s freedom.

    Until the next one.

  • When sufficient people are vaccinated the virus hopefully hits a lot of dead ends for transmission

    This is the point under question though isn't it?

    If we are asking previously infected people to self isolate, presumably because there is a risk that they are not a transmission dead end, then why would vaccinated people be such a dead end?

    (Apologies for the unfortunate use of the 0hraae "dead end")

  • Yes, some will be transmission routes so while R is high they should all still isolate if they have been in contact with a case. The hope is that enough will be immune so the R goes down comfortably below 1 and all isolation ends.

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