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Wow, this person is really claiming that NYC was "herd immune by May 1st". Even the articles cited to try and make these claims are saying something completely
by tedivm 6y ago
Wow, this person is really claiming that NYC was "herd immune by May 1st".
Even the articles cited to try and make these claims are saying something completely different. The "article" states-
> MIT’s news publication, The Tech, now seems confident that immunity is happening
Yet if you actually read what The Tech wrote it's very clearly not saying that-
> “It seems there is the ‘herd immunity is already reached’ team and the ‘we are all going to die’ team. The good thing is, that there is a third ‘let’s get the data and let’s look at what this all means team’ out there,” tweeted Florian Krammer, an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City.
The article also makes a distinction between "herd immunity" (where the entire herd is immune because there aren't enough people susceptible to the disease to transmit it) and "population immunity" (where there is enough immunity to slow- but not stop- the spread). The author completely ignores this distinction to try and make it look like The Tech was saying something they didn't.