@BlackeyedSusan
I wondered about slowing spread because at some point there are going to be fewer people susceptible making it harder to spread. (Herd immunity point?)
Thinking back to BCF's graph of march 2020 of positive tests and suspected number of actual cases where lots of people probably have had Covid, the likelihood of students and school pupils having had it in Autumn asymptomatically... But more kids catching the delta?
Are we near herd immunity?
Will it be possible without vaccinating kids? (12-18 and under 12s)
(School is going back to masks in classrooms and they have had a small number of positive cases recently after a long period without)
As for the older unvaccinated, what effect are they likely to have on transmission, are they significant number wise?
(Sorry point me in the direction of the end of the last thread if it has been answered there)
You can catch this more than once, further antibody research is ongoing
Being double jabbed you can still catch it, mostly a mild case
Elderly and immunocompromised do not have guaranteed protection regardless of being double jabbed, they’re at higher risk of severe illness
Children are indeed becoming infected, the government are failing them by seemingly hoping for the best in schools with very little being done to help the situation.
Herd immunity is difficult to predict, particularly if future mutations affect vaccine efficacy
Delta is far more contagious than what was driving our first and second waves, easing restrictions in some ways creates the perfect opportunity for it to simply demonstrate its ability to us