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Shouldn't the Covid-19 be immune to herd-immunity though because of the very long incubation time, during which you can still transmit the virus?
by csomar 7y ago
Shouldn't the Covid-19 be immune to herd-immunity though because of the very long incubation time, during which you can still transmit the virus?
- maxander 7y agoHerd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected, giving you fewer chances to infect new people. So incubation time doesn’t matter there (though certainly it doesn’t help, for other reasons.)
- ORioN63 7y ago> Herd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected Alternatively, immunized people.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think there is a momentum effect if the percentage of infectious people gets high enough. Where you overshoot the static herd-immunity threshold. If you can keep the number of infected below 10% then you don't see it. At least that's what I saw when I tried to model it. (Take that as you will).