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Re:Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated by smnrchrds on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:33PM (#27363344)
> Is this surprising?

To an extent. Just a couple of weeks ago, this was in the news:

"Why the world’s most vaccinated country is seeing an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases" [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/06/seychelles-v...

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Re:Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated by adventured on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:47PM (#27363852)
Britain - which is of course highly vaccinated - is seeing recent small (so far) problems with spikes as well [1], due to the Delta (India B.1.617.2) variant now spreading there. There doesn't seem to be much consensus as to what a high-vaccination (and, in theory, high herd immunity) location like Britain might expect against that variant. The US will find out pretty soon how the mRNA vaccines hold up against it, as I imagine it'll blanket the US in the coming months.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/scientists-cal...

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