The article gets even better, exposing that someone aged 80 who is fully vaccinated has the risk of death of an unvaccinated person of around 50.
Enough to make them think, why did I bother to get the vaccines?
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I mentioned the other day that a GP that my wife knows had come down with Covid, even though he had had both jabs, did you see the Marr programme this morning?
Andrew Marr said that he had just got over a bout of Covid, he thinks he probably caught it at the G7 meeting a few weeks ago. He also had both jabs, and said he had the vaccines in the very early days (I think he would come under the at risk due to health problems category). So like the GP I mentioned we are probably talking of about 6 months or so since he was vaccinated.
Marr went on to say that although he did not go to Hospital, he was really quite ill, and if he had got a bit worse he would have needed to go in. He also wondered if he was just unlucky and was just one of the ones that the vaccine hasn't worked that well, or were the effects of the vaccine starting to wear off and that's why he caught the disease.
I think the next couple of months are going to be interesting in particular when we open up completely which I think we are likely to do. I'm wondering if perhaps instead of a booster shot after 12 months we might need to consider a booster after 6 months. Or perhaps a 6 month booster for the over 60s or 70s, what do the rest of you think?