The more unvaccinated people you have at the point of reopening, the greater the risk of creating (or transmitting one of the examples already here) variants which reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine, or (in the worst case scenario) manage to evade it entirely. At which point we're back to...
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Seems the EU have sorted their problems with the vaccine procurement out and many member states are planning to complete their programmes by the summer
Interesting thread on vaccination rates and how ramping them up could alter the picture significantly
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It seems to me that they're trying to treat the AZ and Pfizer vaccines the same, when in reality it seems they likely work in different ways. Which strikes me as an odd way of going about things, maybe hold the Pfizer one back for people it's more important to dose up fully earlier (the very...
Perhaps the solution is to say that people who don't wish to have the vaccine can refuse it, but they are the ones who are shielded going forward and have to effectively continue lockdown? That way it keeps them safe while also allowing them to not have the vaccine.