Herd immunity is an illusion. It would require that around 70% of people had been infected already. Using the USA as example: 70% of 328 million would be 230 m

Herd immunity is an illusion. It would require that around 70% of people had been infected already. Using the USA as example: 70% of 328 million would be 230 million people. At a rate of 20000 new infections a day, as it currently is, it would take approximately 11000 days to reach that. That's 32 years. Let us assume ten times this rate was possible and this would still mean over three years. We do not even know yet if people will stay immune for an extended period of time at all after having gone through the illness. All this still ignores that even in a country like Germany that dealt pretty well with the situation so far, the death rate is at approximately 4%. 4% of 230 million people means 9.2 million would die. This also ignored any lasting damages to lungs, heart, nervous system and kidneys as they have been reported. There will be no herd immunity as long as the disease progresses as it currently does.