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by summerlight 1726 days ago
> It reduces severe symptoms but more and more vaccinated are contracting it daily even in places of 95+% vaccinated

That's what the world living with COVID looks like. Given the Delta's estimated reproduction number (5~8), there's no herd immunity achievable in a near future. Then make it less severe and transmissible so we can handle it without strict lockdown and overloading public health infrastructure. At least until we get a universal vaccine against COVID.