Go on then.
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UK Covid cases could rise again despite vaccine progress – WHO official
Oh really, tell me more? That headline implies that'd be a real worry.
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The success of Britain’s vaccine programme is not enough to protect it from another wave of coronavirus unconnected to rising cases in Europe, a senior World Health Organization expert has said.
A successful vaccination program not enough? And even if Europe's COVID isn't COMING RIGHT FOR US, we're still at risk. Fuck.
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Dr Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at WHO Europe, also said confidence in vaccines may have dipped after changes to the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab rollout, with under-30s to be offered alternative options amid concerns over rare blood clots.
A doctor and and senior emergency officer? This Woman must know her shit.
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In an interview, Smallwood said there were still a “significant number” of Covid-19 infections being reported daily in the UK, and that “very restrictive measures” were holding them down.
Yeah, that's true. 3,000 new cases a day is not insignificant. Presumably she'll tell me soon how the vaccine won't stop cases converting into deaths soon and that's why we should be worried.
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But Smallwood cautioned that the UK “still has potential to develop its own sort of renewed resurgence of cases without any involvement from the rest of Europe”. She said the tough measures that have been in place for nearly two months were “what’s keeping the cases down at the moment – it’s not the vaccination”.
The vaccination isn't keeping cases down, at all? I've learnt something today. Still none the wiser how this is that bad though.
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“The population groups that are really driving transmission are still in the majority sense the ones that have not yet been vaccinated as a whole,” Smallwood said. “Transmission can still happen in the UK without any washing up on the shores of the European outbreak.”
Yes, but we've vaccinated all of the vulnerable, right?
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Smallwood said that despite concern over case numbers, deaths seemed to have plateaued and increased only slightly, and not at the same rate as infections.
Hate to tell you how to interpret numbers, but deaths haven't just plateaued, they've decreased by 92% since January. And they haven't increased at the same rate as infections because we've vaccinated the vulnerable.
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Despite governments in the UK grappling with how to ease border restrictions this summer to let people go on foreign holidays, Smallwood said travel bans were not “necessarily a feasible strategy”. She pointed to how many countries had tried to block arrivals from the UK after the variant first discovered in Kent was found to be more transmissible, yet it had still become “predominant across much of Europe”.
“It may slow entry by giving you a little bit more time as a strategy to prevent,” she said. “[But] that is not a sustainable strategy in the context of a highly globalised situation, and specifically for the UK with its very, very close ties to the rest of continental Europe.”
Funny that, you seemed to be an advocate of lockdowns above. Are they sustainable and isn't a travel ban (done properly) just another form of that? Still, the article is nearing its end, there must be the link that ties this factually dubious ramble to the CONCERN.
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