The head of the Oxford jab programme said that Covid-19 is no longer a disease of the vaccine recipients.
Prof Sir Andrew Pollard said that the hospital's "ongoing horror" of patients gasping for breath is now restricted to people who are unvaccinated.
Even though the more transmissible Delta variant continues to spread, most of those who are fully vaccined will only experience mild infections that are little more than an annoyance.
Pollard wrote that the public still views the Pandemic as a silent pestilence, despite the fact that it's taking place in intensive care units.
Covid-19 is no longer a disease of the vaccine, and vaccines tend to limit its suffocating affliction.
The UK should escape the surge in infections seen in parts of Europe because of the booster jabs and immunity from the summertime spread of the Delta variant.
Pollard said that the UK will probably not be hit as hard as some European countries because it has higher vaccination levels. The impact of the current wave in hospital intensive care units will be worse in countries with lower vaccination rates.
Pollard said that Covid would still pile pressure on the health service this winter, with unvaccinated patients requiring intensive care and double-jabbed patients who are older and frail still at risk of death.
The latest wave of the virus in the UK, which is now rising rapidly in parts of Europe, will directly translate into a stream of mostly unvaccinated patients entering the intensive care unit, he said in the article. These people need the vaccine as soon as possible to prevent serious illness.
The story now seems very different for those of us who have already beenvaccinated. These mild infections are not very important for most people.
Covid infections can cause serious, life-threatening health problems that add to the pressure on the health service for frail, ill and elderly people.
Prof Peter Openshaw, of the New and Emerging Respiratory Threats Advisory Group, said he was pleased that the UK could avoid introducing measures in Europe.
He is concerned that we have high levels of transmission in the UK. My preference would be to try and get these rates down, because we know that masks do work, and we need to try and reduce the level of circulation of the virus, as well as getting up vaccination.
We need a combination of measures, which includes re-vaccination, third doses, but also wearing masks and being very careful not to transmit the virus, to be successful.
