COVID-19: Ireland's Co Waterford has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world - so why are cases surging?
New figures this week show that Co Waterford has both the highest vaccination rate and the highest COVID-19 incidence rate in Ireland. It's partly been put down to a change in people's behaviour, with the jabs having made some over-confident.
Waterford, in south-eastern Ireland, epitomises the country's coronavirus conundrum. Why is there a surge in COVID-19 cases in a nation where around 92% of all adults are fully vaccinated?
A massive 99.5% of adults over the age of 18 in Co Waterford are double-jabbed. That's thought to be
one of the highest rates of any region anywhere in the world.
But, according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the county now tops the national infection league table, with a 14-day incidence rate of 1,294 per 100,000.
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Some scientists feel that any public frustration with the high incidence rates is based on a misunderstanding of what the vaccines were supposed to achieve.
"The function of the vaccine is to stop illness and death, that's the primary goal, and the vaccines are holding up, it's great." That's the view of Professor Luke O'Neill, an immunologist at Trinity College Dublin, and one of the country's best-known scientific figures during the pandemic.
My added comment;
Maybe because people were originally "sold a bill of goods" on the vaccine and then later what was delivered was not what was originally promised.
ETA 2
As a point of reference even
the worst USA State has a current infection rate lower than 1,294 per 100,000.
7 Day Current USA Rates so X2, worst States;
