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Re:Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan t... by tekknik on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:20AM (#29431686)
Not necessarily true with the new variants, and it won’t be true for future variants either. The virus jumped to wild animals so it’s freely mutating in unvaccinated hosts outside of the human population.
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Re:Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan t... by TulliusCicero on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:29PM (#29435785)
IIRC the effectiveness is reduced for delta, certainly, but not to zero.

But yes, we’ll probably need updated vaccines, similarly to how we update the flu shot every year.

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