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by disambiguation 1683 days ago
> because if enough of us don't take the vaccine, we're all at risk from the virus continuing to spread and mutate.

unfortunately, because the vaccine is leaky, it does little to nothing to stop the spread.

"Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States … At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days (Fig. 1). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7