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User Info This Is Why You Can't Get There From Here; entered at 2021-08-19 15:18:00
Maddmaxx
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Registered: 2021-05-31
Karl, would like your thoughts on this. This morning I was thinking about how little difficulties Sweden is currently having even though I understood they had a high vaccination rate. I just looked it up and an article I found says about three-quarters of the adult population has been vaccinated. Yet, unlike Israel, Iceland and the UK, they're not seeing the big surge in cases this summer (so far?). The obvious difference between Sweden and the other countries mentioned is that Sweden infamously did not lock down. It occurred to me the reason Sweden isn't suffering like the other high-vaxxed countries has to be that Sweden had largely reached natural herd immunity in the first part of the pandemic. If this is the explanation and if Sweden does not later experience a big surge, it would seem that vaccination may not greatly impair natural immunity.

I know nothing about which vaccines are being deployed in Sweden and when people got vaccinated, so maybe Sweden's day will yet come. However, there seems to be something there to ponder and keep a watch on.
2021-08-19 15:18:00