My source shows them at 64.4%, where are you seeing 80%?
> Had the world's highest daily infection rate last week.
And the world's ~50th highest death rate.
The point of the vaccine isn't simply to prevent you from getting the virus, it's to prevent you from getting sick or dying. Ideally it makes transmission harder too (a less severe infection means less viral load to spread), but that's just a secondary benefit. The primary thing is to stop people from being hospitalised.
Israel has among the world’s highest levels of vaccination for COVID-19, with 78% of those 12 and older fully vaccinated, the vast majority with the Pfizer vaccine. Yet the country is now logging one of the world’s highest infection rates, with nearly 650 new cases daily per million people.
More than half are in fully vaccinated people, underscoring the extraordinary transmissibility of the Delta variant and stoking concerns that the benefits of vaccination ebb over time.
I think that 60% figure is the percentage of vaccinated and hospitalised. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/nearly-6...
Right now the magic number for Australia is getting 80% of the population vaccinated, at which point the current COVID-zero approach will be abandoned.
I believe New Zealand has a similar approach, although I'm not sure on the exact number they're targeting.