The United States will not reach so-called “herd immunity” from COVID-19 as new variants emerge and a large percentage of the population so far does not want to get a vaccinate, according to some scientists.
Herd immunity is achieved when enough of the population has received a vaccine or has become immune after contracting the virus, weakening it and not allow it to further spread.
Another factor is that some countries will continue to struggle with outbreaks.
“We will not achieve herd immunity as a country or a state or even as a city until we have enough immunity in the population as a whole,” Lauren Ancel Meyers, the director of the Covid-19 Modeling Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, told The New York Times.
Such scientists say the virus will become more manageable but that it will still cause hospitalizations and deaths, but in smaller numbers, according to
Experts once thought herd immunity was attainable this summer, with 60 to 70% of the population being vaccinated.
But with more contagious variants, they now think the percentage must be closer to 80% of the population, which they say is not foreseeable in the near future.
Of course this is too powerful of a tool to control people, they won’t let it go
Vaccine stats are only as good as those who get vaccinated. Projections do not take into consideration choice or feelings.
Early “marketing” aka assumptions (which is part of projections) considered that 80% of the 331M American’s would get vaccinated – hence the herd immunity conundrum. Tell the masses if enough get vaccinated – herd immunity would do the rest.
246M vaccines have been administered. Is that 1 shot or 2? If 80% of country received a shot (~265M) it would look to be close.
We is not communicated is if the current 246M vaccines administered are full inoculation or not. Now throw in the need for boosters in 6 or 12 months.
They don’t know what they don’t know and there isn’t enough long term data to project. Time, which the economy doesn’t have will tell.
3 days until TGIF!
Some experts. You mean like Fauchi?
It is a virus like the flu, every year.
Viruses mutate and become less lethal, like the flu, because it wants to exist and it can’t if it kills all the hosts.
We will become used to it like the flu, in time.
The reason it will be less likely is due to the experimental vaccine.
They have altered our ability to become desensitized to it.
A bad bourbon (bottom shelf) will do all the desensitizing needed.
Not to mention the next day awful headache!
(snicker snicker)
Anyone with good sense and who does not trust the government (ME!!!) will not take that poison vaccine. I’d sooner take my chances on the flu……which is all covid is.
The Only Herd is the Herd of Dirty Democrats that have taken over America by Cheating Election 2020 !!!!
Lets HERD all the Democrats in America to a Place called SIBERIA & leave them there 2021 !!!!!
Yes let Putin work them to Death in the Goologs !!!!!!
In another country Democrats would be Hearded to the slaughter House like cattle !!!!