Mon Nov 1, 2021 – 2:40 pm EDT
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(WND News Center) – The Republic of Ireland has injected 92% of its adult population with the COVID-19 jabs, the highest rate in the European Union, but the nation now has the highest number of patients hospitalized for the virus since March.
Irish hospitals now have 513 COVID-19 patients, with 97 in intensive care, which is an increase from the 74 recorded last week.
The cases will increase until there is a “transmission-blocking vaccine,” because the efficacy of the current shots is waning, claimed Dr. Anne Moore, a vaccine specialist at University College Cork.
Dr. Anne Moore added that “we will eventually have to boost the rest of the population … because we are going to see a huge increase in the number of cases.”
However, a yearlong, peer-reviewed study published this week in the prestigious British science journal The Lancet found that people vaccinated against COVID-19 are as likely to spread the delta variant to contacts in their household as those who have not been vaccinated.
The study tracking more than 600 people in the U.K. found
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