Surprised to read this vaccination stat from the White House.

Is not immunity. That one dose figure no longer makes sense when vaccines have been out so long.

since we should be vaccinating children as well.

We are like 61% has had ANY dose, and only 52% are fully vaxxed we’re I am. And LOTs of right-wing disinformation!

As bad as things are in the U.S. I should be grateful I'm not where you are. COVID-wise, anyway.
Stay safe, my brother.

My eyes are playing tricks on me this morning.

Thanks for correcting me.

mutating as long as there is unvaccinated fresh meat for them and you never know whether it will be a mild change or a horrible change that will overcome existing vaccines.

To get this virus to go to a minor endemic problem 90% of the population must be immunized with 3 doses of the vaccine. Since the omicron variant seems to be about as infectious as the measles virus and we know that we need a 90% immunization rate to control measles.

All the talk by the media that we need more testing is missing the point. If you want to really control this virus give it no place to reproduce. Get vaccinated, now!

Not JUST because of the vaccine hesitant. Vaccines are not approved for children under 5... that makes a big dent right off of the top.

Not saying you are wrong just would like that info for use later.

The update - according to the information in the link measles requires 95% of the population to be immunized. I had previously read and heard 90%, so as you can see a very highly communicable disease requires extremely good compliance by the population. Polio requires "only" 80% immunization.

So, when antivaxxers complain about vaccine mandates ask them about their willingness to be vaccinated against measles and polio.

Anyway, the link: [link:https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/herd-immunity|]

May the new year bring some enlightenment to the foolish.

And the last info I heard was that omni is thought to be more communicable than measles.

One dose means essentially nothing.

I’d respect them more if they release the stats on those fully vaxxed. And boosted.

https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/vaccine/vaccine-data.html?county=Illinois

So maybe the national numbers are similar.

But the unvaxxed are dooming us to this rinse, repeat, rinse cycle I’m afraid.