Natural immunity is most common among the young, the last group to be offered the vaccine
On September 9th Public Health England , a British agency, released a report using a different approach from that of such studies. Rather than tracking trial participants or people selected on the basis of their medical histories, it follows England’s entire population from August 9th to September 5th, reflecting Delta-variant infections almost exclusively.
Unlike the murky case numbers, the data on hospitalisations and deaths were reassuring. Within age groups, these outcomes were 67-90% less common among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated—a result similar to the 90% decline found in data from America released on September 10th.estimated that the jabs have prevented 112,000 deaths in Britain. The country’s official toll from covid-19 is 134,000.’s data offer two reasons to hope that Britain may avoid an autumn surge in severe covid-19.
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