The number of Covid cases being recorded daily in the West remains high, and even resembles earlier peaks at different points during the pandemic.
Crucially, the number of hospitalizations and deaths accompanying the high number of cases has remained lower than at earlier points in the pandemic when vaccination rates were much lower, proving that the coronavirus vaccines in use in the West dramatically lower the chance of a severe infection, hospitalization and death. Hospitalizations in the U.S. remain high, data from Our World in Data show.
"The delta variant is highly contagious and this accounts for the continuing high number of cases now that we are mixing much more freely since most restrictions were eased," Andrew Freedman, a reader in infectious disease at Cardiff University School of Medicine, told CNBC Thursday. "We know that the vaccines are only partially effective at preventing people from catching the delta variant, but are much more effective at protecting against severe disease, hospitalisation and death. Fully vaccinated individuals are mostly getting only mild symptoms if they do catch it, although a small minority, especially older and more frail people, are still getting more severe illness.
It noted, in its latest research published on Thursday, that "cases in this group had been rising steadily but have now stabilised, with last week's figure being 17,342."
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