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One of President Trumps top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial herd immunity strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing the coronavirus to spread through most of the population to quickly build resistance to the virus, while taking steps to protect those in nursing homes and other vulnerable populations, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
The approachs chief proponent is Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist from Stanfords conservative Hoover Institution, who joined the White House earlier this month as a pandemic adviser. He has advocated that the United States adopt the model Sweden has used to respond to the virus outbreak, according to these officials, which relies on lifting restrictions so the healthy can build up immunity to the disease rather than limiting social and business interactions to prevent the virus from spreading.
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Turbineguy
(37,369 posts)the great thing about this strategy is the number of people who die.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... stay away from other humans, a slight benefit to my condition
Kid Berwyn
(14,965 posts)Conservative mind. Do Nothing.
Same thing. Same think.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)That should say INSANE.