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Letters and short takes Monday December 6 2021

By Letters to the Editor
December 6 2021 - 4:30am
The fact is, the vaccines have softened blow of pandemic
The fact is, the vaccines have softened blow of pandemic

PETER Dolan has interesting points, ("Infectiousness doesn't drop off", Letters, 1/12). I agree with your last few words; "Vaccinated (people) are far less likely to develop symptoms "and that is why if everyone was vaccinated we would not have over 532 people in hospital with COVID and 71 in intensive care at present in Australia. This is an illness of the unvaccinated; you ask any intensive care specialist or nurse. Alas these people can get very ill and die and they transfer resources away from people who may need the ICU bed for highly risky surgery. The ICU resource is finite.

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