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That's basically the UK "herd immunity" which experts think is kinda crazy, also it's not even known that a long-lasting immunity is created for this virus in
by seemslegit 7y ago
That's basically the UK "herd immunity" which experts think is kinda crazy, also it's not even known that a long-lasting immunity is created for this virus in people who are infected either symptomatically or not.
iirc it requires numbers closer to 2/3rds of a population.
- antirez 7y agoNope it's very different than the UK pseudo plan (apparently they don't really have such plan). I mean, if there was a simple way to test _before_ people get infected, if they'll develop just very mild symptoms, we could do it. Even if you need more than 50%, 50% is still a lot of a barrier that lowers the virus R0 a lot.
- seemslegit 7y agoEven if there was - testing and controlled-infecting 50% of the population would be a huge effort and probably not shorter than isolating old people and allowing an uncontained infection to burn through. But the big problem is that it might not even help, the worst case scenario is that absent a vaccine the virus becomes just a more infectious and deadlier cold that people risk getting every season.