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| Topic | can someone explain why places/countries are starting to require vaccination? |
| Sonic Cannon 04/10/21 5:17:37 PM #38: | This article gives a brief overview: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-int-idUSKBN2AJ08J The short summary is that the vaccine has now proven to also reduce cases without any symptoms by a large degree, which will cut down on the transmissibility of the virus considerably. From a population level you can see the impact has been a reduction in daily new cases of over 90% since the beginning of February (see daily cases graphs here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/ ), which is far greater than the proportion of the population vaccinated (around 56% - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/ ). This demonstrates that there is some "herd immunity" effect at play, which wouldn't be the case if it didn't reduce transmission. --- Keep it green. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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