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Originally Posted by Saga Lout
Many hundreds of thousands more have now had the virus, look at the figures of weekly cases of declared infections in the last year, don't count the people who didn't test. The fact is that once infected and recovered, you'll be mostly immune from a new infection, the latest infections are from school age people to their parents and that's tailing off. There isn't a comparison between this year and last year, I don't doubt that the vaccines have helped some people but it's not as many as was hoped, that's why the third jab is now needed `to save Christmas` The vaccines work for some but are really quite poor at stopping much of the virus.
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Unfortunately you have defeated your own argument! As you say, those who have already had the virus are unlikely to get it again, so natural immunity isn't reducing the current number of infections. Yet very few of those current cases are going to hospital, and the chief reason for the difference between health outcomes for people contracting Covid in November 2021 compared to November 2020 is the vaccine rollout. As I have already acknowledged, the growth of natural immunity is helping the overall situation - but does nothing to explain the reduced hospitalization rates for those who do become infected.