The curse of Overconfidence. Omicron subvariant BA.5 is pushing up hospitalizations for the under vaccinated. "Fully vaccinated" should have been three doses not two. The reinfection wave is upon us.

U.S. Hospitalizations since Feb 2022 for the Covid-19 and Omicron subvariant BA.5 

The COVID vaccine for fully vaccinated should have been three doses, rather than two,  yet the official advise was that the 'full vaccinated' were on two shots.   Tying in with a society that is overconfident whilst being miscommunicated too by authorities, that are more concerned about economic gauges, that Omicron seems to be the fittest of the variants and continues to mutates, now evolving into the BA.5 the most contagious subvariant yet, the concern that scientists have is that the low vaccine doses that were given out over the last couple of years ago, the immunity for the first Covid strains has certainly waned. While the asymmetrical vaccine rollouts globally have ensured that Covid continues to mutate.  

A recent paper from Washington University School of Medicine and VA Saint Louis Health Care System, which is yet to peer previewed, has advised through their assessment on the BA.5 strain, that the 2 doses of vaccines that were originally considered as fully vaccinated, will not offset the possibility of severe respiratory symptoms and deaths.   And while testing has been scaled back, hospitalizations are showing the true extent of the Omicron BA.5 reinfection wave.