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The variants — and their uncertain effect on immunity (natural or vaccine-induced) mean that herd immunity is not that helpful of a concept to track. What matt
by electric_muse 6y ago
The variants — and their uncertain effect on immunity (natural or vaccine-induced) mean that herd immunity is not that helpful of a concept to track.
What matters are the data on infection rate.
- rurban 6y agoWith the infection rate being highly erroneous, largely dependent on the testing rate, the test quality, the immense rate of asymptotic infections and the extremely high false positive rate of some tests, the best data is still the hospitalization rate. Relying on the infection rate with these unknowns is unreliable. Reminds me in the middle ages to find out who is a witch or not. They thought of themselves highly scientific and rational those times. Better burn some more witches than letting some escape.