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Darlington55

Why are numbers rising when numbers of people having their 2 injections?

Reply 1

username5698516

Original post by Darlington55

Why are numbers rising when numbers of people having their 2 injections?

Probably because more people are being tested. I wouldn’t worry yourself too much about COVID, as it know it’s a very stressful time xx

Reply 2

Sinnoh

Natural reproduction rate of the Delta variant of the coronavirus is something like 5 or more. 77% of adults have had both vaccine doses, which is about 61% of the total population of the UK.

So, in the incredibly optimistic assumption that 2 vaccine doses completely prevented infection and the R rate was 5, you would need to vaccinate at least 80% of the total population to prevent an exponential rise in cases.
We haven't, so cases are rising