Faroe Islands superspreader event: why transmission among the triple-vaxxed shouldn't alarm you

By Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield

When the omicron variant first emerged in South Africa in November 2021, there was a lot of alarm at the exponential spread of the infection. This phenomenal speed of spread exceeds what we saw with previous variants. This trend has been mirrored elsewhere in the world, including the UK where the number of infections was doubling every two days in early December. What caused further concern was that this rapid spread was occurring in a highly…

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