Most Dutch are vaccinated, so why are Covid-19 cases spiking?
CoronaSociety November 19, 2021 - By Lauren Comiteau

One year and nine months into the Covid crisis and the number of people getting infected has never been worse. Lauren Comiteau has been trying to find out why. In total, 23,680 cases were reported on Thursday, the fourth day in a row of record-setting case numbers following a week that broke the record for the highest number of new infections (110,000) since the pandemic began.

That’s a 44% rise over the week before, and this week’s figures have yet to come in. All this in a country where 84.7% of people over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated, and many not so long ago. How can this happen?

For starters, points out Frits Rosendaal, professor of clinical epidemiology at the Leiden University Medical Center, that number doesn’t include people under the age of 18. ‘Only 72% of the total population is vaccinated,’ he says. ‘They give the figure for the over-18s because those are the people who may get seriously ill. But children can also be infected and spread the virus. They don’t live on islands.’

Indeed, the biggest increase in positive tests over the past week was among children aged 4-12. And Rosendaal says that 10-14 year olds are a big part of the spread. Vaccinations are available to the 12-17 year old crowd, but officials are still considering whether to vaccinate younger children. Rosendaal says that the more than one million 5-12 year olds who are not vaccinated — in a country of some 17.5 million people— should be.

Vaccines are good

Vaccines work, especially when it comes to preventing severe illnesses resulting from Covid-19. The latest data shows that vaccinations are 94% effective in preventing hospital admissions and 97% effective against ICU admission. The chances of an unvaccinated person ending up in hospital is 17 times higher than for a vaccinated one, and unvaccinated people have a 33 times greater chance of ending up in intensive care units than their vaccinated peers. (I find this unbelievable, but time will tell)

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This is happening all over the world...

The most common excuse for it that I see is: that the "vaccinated" people are now behaving more "recklessly" and taking chances (i.e., no masks, no social distancing, apparently they even stopped washing their hands!!) that the "unvaccinated" people aren't.

Sounds like a pretty weak and lame excuse to me....

Impossibly lame, Mr. Ed.