RE: Covid passes14 Dec 2021 08:17
A snippet from a BBC News article:
Where required, people will need to show they're fully vaccinated (currently two doses), proof of a negative test taken in the past 48 hours, or that they have an exemption.
A snippet from some scientists stating "Protection against symptomatic infection is "essentially eliminated" for individuals vaccinated more than four months earlier."
Billy Gardner and Marm Kilpatrick from the University of California, Santa Cruz developed computer models incorporating data on COVID-19 vaccines' efficacy against earlier variants and initial data on the Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech vaccine against Omicron. Their models suggest that early after two doses of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna (MRNA.O), efficacy against symptomatic infection from Omicron is only about 30%, down from about 87% versus Delta, they reported on Sunday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. Protection against symptomatic infection is "essentially eliminated" for individuals vaccinated more than four months earlier.
So what do we do. We say vaxxed can go in untested despite them having low or zero protection from catching and spreading covid. Unvaxxed can go in as long as they prove they don't have Covid. You can then all mingle together. End result, unvaxxed come out with Covid with some needing hospital treatment, some vaxxed come out with Covid with a few needing hospital treatment.
These covid passes go live tomorrow.
Test everyone or don't let the unvaxxed in. Simples. Keep it as it is and cases will rise, hospitalisations will rise and unfortunately deaths will rise. Ludicrous.