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At huge societal cost. The virus has already killed almost 250,000 people in the United States. Vaccines get you the individual protection (and eventually herd
by someperson 6y ago
At huge societal cost. The virus has already killed almost 250,000 people in the United States.
Vaccines get you the individual protection (and eventually herd immunity) without all the death.
- sp332 6y agoRight. We have about 3% of the US population who has had COVID, and 235,000 deaths. To get to herd immunity, we need about 50% of the population to be immune (exact numbers vary depending on the study). So to get there with the virus, we would expect around 4 million people to die in the US alone.