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Jun 11, 2021, 8:58 am

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fransknorge

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Originally Posted by nk15

The Delta variant is pretty lethal even for those vaccinated in the UK, so definitely a cause for concern...

Delta variant causes more than 90% of new Covid cases in UK | Coronavirus | The Guardian

"Of the 42 deaths recorded in England within 28 days of a positive test involving the Delta variant, 23 were in unvaccinated people, with 12 among those who were fully vaccinated and seven among people who had had one dose."

I will dig into the ONS data themselves later as I guess (assume) the vaccinated people in A&E or with even more severe outcomes are possibly either very old people or immunosuppressed people, so a population where the vaccine efficiency is lower than the results of studies. Which would of course re-inforce the point of mass vaccinations for everybody in order to protect those populations. But also re-inforce the problem of how to protect them in the meantime.