The vaccines are preventing hospitalizations and deaths which is really most of why Omicron is considered to be "mild". How much longer will it take to admit t

The vaccines are preventing hospitalizations and deaths which is really most of why Omicron is considered to be "mild". How much longer will it take to admit that its still the unvaccinated driving all the hospitalizations? And I'm not at all surprised that a shot given in the arm doesn't give sterilizing mucosal immunity in the upper respiratory tract. It was never expected to (which is why the nasal vaccines are still garnering considerable interest). Call it a communications flaw if you like, but this was more or less expected. Fauci himself was setting expectations lower for a VE of around 50% back in the summer of 2020 before the Phase III trials published the 90% numbers. Those didn't account for waning immunity or escape variants like Omicron though, although their 90% VE against severe disease and hospitalization is still holding up fine.