Go back to previous topic
Forum nameGeneral Discussion
Topic subjectRE: you can't take anything from the Sun or Dailymail as truth
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13437897&mesg_id=13438760
13438760, RE: you can't take anything from the Sun or Dailymail as truth
Posted by shygurl, Mon Aug-02-21 12:47 PM
The articles are absolutely trying to imply that vaccinated people are going to hospital for non-covid reasons and because they have tested positive for covid are now all needing additionally care. *Some* vaccinated people may require additional medical care post admission due to a covid infection, but not most. These articles are fear mongering at their worse, and unsurprising coming from the shitholes of the Dailymail and the Sun.

There are more breakthrough cases currently because of the virulency of the Delta variant, but vaccines still substantially reduce the risk of infection from Covid, and reduce the severity of symptoms if you do get infected.

The so-called breakthrough cases are higher now because the Alpha and Beta variants (which were the most common variants prior to Delta) are nowhere near as virulent and easy to spread to as Delta. So yes the efficacy of the vaccines aren't as high as they were before when we had weaker variants, but it's still important that people get vaccinated. It's also why we still need to practice safer procedures (masking/social distancing/not gathering in large crowds) because while vaccinations help, they are not 100%.