READER LETTER | The most troubling aspect of the current surge is that we are unsure of the speed of infection and its lethality. Could the strains mutate into a variant that renders current vaccines obsolete?
We are in uncharted waters and pandemic fatigue probably isn’t helping either. People who are over this virus could be ignoring their symptoms and going about their daily lives, while people who are getting reinfected may be getting milder symptoms that they do no recognise as the new variants of Covid-19.
In a new worrisome development, a SA laboratory study reveals that strains BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages have the ability to evade antibodies from earlier infections and vaccinations. We will pay an astronomical price in human lives for not adhering to social distancing rules. Defiance in the face of a new wave will lead to upheavals on a huge scale. The carnage in human and economic terms that will follow will reshape the course of our nation.
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