Isn’t H1N1 from the Spanish Flu from 100 years ago still around?
That's really disheartening. I was hoping herd immunity would be achievable closer to 60 or 65%.
No one knows anything. Time will tell.
There seems to be disagreement with JHU’s assertions here:
“Today, our national HIT(Herd Immunity Threshold) is roughly 15%, which means we are almost done, no matter what any Governor does.”
“The Herd Immunity Threshold (“HIT”) for COVID-19 is between 10-20%
This fact gets less press than any other. Most people understand the basic concept of herd immunity and the math behind it. In the early days, some public health officials speculated that COVID-19’s HIT was 70%. Obviously, the difference between a HIT of 70% and a HIT of 10-20% is dramatic, and the lower the HIT, the quicker a virus will burn out as it loses the ability to infect more people, which is exactly what COVID-19 is doing everywhere, including the U.S, which is why the death curve above(attached) looks the way it looks.”
https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/07/second-wave-not-even-close/
And here(charts, numbers, discussion):
https://wmbriggs.com/post/31431/
JHU is all-in and all aboard the Money Train.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about
We trust them as far as we can throw them, which is not at all.
Democrats rejoice.
Why anyone with a brain in their head would listen to anything this Fauci idiot says is beyond me.
people have always faced these things.....and always will.....
Well, if you look at the numbers (even though we know they are not accurate), in the United States some 40 million people have been tested and positive cases number 3,009,611, or just 7.73% of these tested, and this is not nationwide; there are hotspots. Of total cases, just 131,594 have died. That is 4.3%. Half have been elderly. The total population of the United States is a little over 328.2 million, and thus the total cases are just 0.91% and deaths are just .04% of the population.
Makes
No
Sense
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ vs. cents
That’s not how herd immunity works... it isn’t dependent on a vaccine.
So people, Let’s get this through our heads. It’s no longer “flatten the curve!”. It is now “We must never completely lift lockdowns or we will all die!”
It is not unusual for persons who have a weak or shortened course of a virus to not fully develop antibodies. It is the same with needing boosters for vaccines. I have come to be skeptical about experts who announce their small scale controlled studies should be applied wholesale to the general population despite any empirical evidence that contradicts it.
How will they differentiate between COVID-19 and the common cold, since both can be coronaviruses?
To claim that any vaccine would be more effective at achieving herd immunity than the original virus is scientific gibberish.
Go jump in the lake with your phony vaccine.
Where’s the cold vaccine?
Fauci:
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
No, you don’t need a mask as they are useless against a virus.
Wouldn’t a scientist know that herd immunity has nothing to do with a vaccine? Herd immunity is the result of a natural process.
SCIENCE!!