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Also it seems at this stage that the number of vaccinations may just about have broken the link from cases to hospitalisations/death, so even if (when) we see the third wave of cases, we may be at the stage that we can live with it / NHS can cope with it.
That's the hope anyway. The next couple of weeks will be pretty tense I think...
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I'm guessing they're betting on it not being unbounded exponential growth and that it will tail off some time soon. I don't hold much hope for that myself.
I think the news will start to be dominated by pieces that highlight the fact that a vaccine that is ~95% effective still leaves 5% (3.5 million people in the UK) susceptible. So much of the news so far has pushed the "double vaccination == immune" line, and that's going to quickly unravel as things go up from here.