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> Perhaps in a year or two the existing vaccines will have proven so effective that COVID-19 becomes not much more than a nuisance.

This sentence won't age well.

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We don't have to wait for it to age - Gibraltar, one of the only places in the world with 99% vaccination rate is seeing a spike in cases:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1469353/Gibraltar-...

You mean the spike that's already subsiding, during which there was 1 death of a person who was unvaccinated?

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/08/05/gibraltar-resident...

Let's not get hysterical. Breakthrough cases will happen. That they cluster is no great surprise at all.

Is covid a nuisance for Gibraltar? No. But it's far from the threat it was pre-vaccine.

To add to that: Gibraltar isn't isolated, but has a lot of people coming and going from neighbouring Spain. Vaccination rate raising, but still far from 99%

300 cases for 30k population?

With 99% vaccinated, that's 10% of the unvaccinated population

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