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Or to be more exact, whether the vaccines prevent serious illness to a sufficient degree to compensate for the variants greater transmissibility.
SA doctor anecdata is that they are seeing lots more people in their 20s and 30s with moderate and severe disease. This could of course be lifestyle related in a country with very low vaccine uptake.
Even so, I'm shitting it for the NHS. Surely it won't take too much of a transmissibility bump to push admissions up?
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Early days yet.. key question will be whether the vaccines continue to prevent serious illness as they have with Delta.