Dr John's "Important Announcement" - we are all going to get it.

[vera99]

I've been following 'Dr' John since the start and always found him to be informative and useful. In his latest video, he has changed his tone somewhat.

If he's right, and the consensus is now that herd immunity is impossible, because the vaccine can't prevent transmission, then that's obviously very significant in terms of what the policy will be from now on.

This presumably also assumes that it's not going to be possible to 'tweak' the vaccine such that it can prevent onwards transmission.

He doesn't really talk about what happens if we get to a point where the health service can't deal with hospitalisation numbers.

Bring on the boosters, please.

@3asAbird

Just wondering what happens if delta does burn out and another varient takes delta dominant place.. Does immunity level vary compared to mutation and varient? So if you had Kent you dident get delta?

You might have got it but probably milder, because the immune system would have recognised the virus and therefore able to react quicker. Coronaviruses don't 'mutate' quickly enough to be completely unrecognisable over a few months. This is assuming your immune system is fairly robust.