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LovingA2andMI's JournalReaching 'Herd Immunity' Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
Source: New York Times
Early in the pandemic, when vaccines for the coronavirus were still just a glimmer on the horizon, the term herd immunity came to signify the endgame: the point when enough Americans would be protected from the virus so we could be rid of the pathogen and reclaim our lives.
Now, more than half of adults in the United States have been inoculated with at least one dose of a vaccine. But daily vaccination rates are slipping, and there is widespread consensus among scientists and public health experts that the herd immunity threshold is not attainable at least not in the foreseeable future, and perhaps not ever.
Instead, they are coming to the conclusion that rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in the United States for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-heard-immunity-vaccine.html?smid=tw-share
And this comment, seems like a bit of a flip flop of sorts:
People were getting confused and thinking youre never going to get the infections down until you reach this mystical level of herd immunity, whatever that number is, he said.
Thats why we stopped using herd immunity in the classic sense, he added. Im saying: Forget that for a second. You vaccinate enough people, the infections are going to go down.
Considering he said this in December 24, 2020....
In the pandemics early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying 70, 75 percent in television interviews. And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said 75, 80, 85 percent and 75 to 80-plus percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html
Oh well.....
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