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Biden says it will be difficult to achieve Covid herd immunity before summer end
- just-juan-post 6y agoDec 24 2020: Fauci says > "we really don't know what the number is" and > "In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...
- IgorBog61650384 6y agoPeople need to understand that stopping Covid will take much more then a year, and can easily extend for 2-3 years. 24% of the USA population is under 18 (from google). The article states that at least 75% of the population must be vaccinated, which means that he expects 100% vaccination of the rest of the population, which is impossible due to medical reasons, and in the USA with its large communities of anti-vaxxers even more complicated. To achieve herd immunity we need to slowly lower the lower age limit for vaccinations, and adjust the ways schools operate - for example mandatory temperature measurments and rapid 10-min covid tests for the kids before they can enter the school buildings. People trying to sell everything will be back to normal by summer might in the end cause more harm then good by creating false hopes for fast fixes.
- kaminar 6y agoIn October 2020, he had a "solution". Guess not.
- kaminar 6y agoCampsite.bio/Westonaprice