The core point of the OP article - and the data coming out of Israel - is that mass vaccination alone is less effective than expected at preventing the surge of

The core point of the OP article - and the data coming out of Israel - is that mass vaccination alone is less effective than expected at preventing the surge of transmission and infection by variants of concern. The article you cited is in agreement with the literature I previously cited - as more people are infected the virus has more opportunity to mutate. > The best strategy against escape variants available to us right now is to reduce transmission rates ... as much as possible with high vaccination rates Your comment contradicts the mounting evidence we have available to us. Yes we need to use the vaccine tech we have at our disposal now - but in a highly targeted way, and supplemented by other viral elimination strategies that do not exert specific selective pressure on the virus.