オミクロンで集団免疫は達成しないだろうが・・・

 That adds to evidence that the coronavirus will continue to find ways to break through our immune defenses, they said.

“Reaching a theoretical threshold beyond which transmission will cease is probably unrealistic given the experience we have had in the pandemic,” Dr. Olivier le Polain, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization (WHO), told Reuters.

 Instead of herd immunity, many experts interviewed by Reuters said there was growing evidence that vaccines and prior infection would help boost population immunity against COVID-19, which makes the disease less serious for those who are infected, or become reinfected.

“As long as population immunity holds with this variant and future variants, we'll be fortunate and the disease will be manageable,”

　コロナは免疫防御システムをすりぬけるのがめちゃうまいので、感染がなくなるという意味での集団免疫にはならないだろうが、ワクチンや感染によって感染ないし再感染した場合に重症は避けられるようになり、この病気は管理可能になっていくだろう、と。

ーーーま、それでいいよ。