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Or will just so many people get the virus the tiny percentage of young/healthy people that die will become significant?
This. Currently still about 50 million unvaccinated so even though this group is much less vulnerable, there are still loads of them + vaccine efficacy after one dose (most people so far) is lower, so increases the small % who still get ill after the vaccine + new variants possibly having more resistance to vaccines.
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I don’t get it... and I’m definitely missing something. But I keep wondering this so I am going to ask. Why would hospital admissions go up and deaths go up if all the vulnerable people (or the greater proportion of them) are vaccinated? I thought the vaccines were all pretty reliably preventing deaths if not total protection from getting the virus. Or is it pretty certain that a variant will mean the vaccines won’t work? Or will just so many people get the virus the tiny percentage of young/healthy people that die will become significant?