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COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse
RE: COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse
Generally you need 95%+ of the population to be immune to a disease to confer herd immunity anyway, and COVID-19 is so easily transmitted I wouldn't be surprised if it'd take 99%+.

And herd immunity isn't immunity for the individual. All it means is that the disease has great difficulty spreading in a specific population, but if it manages to get into a vulnerable population things can go badly wrong, as we see often enough when things like polio or measles get into an anti-vaccination community and spread like the plagues they are.


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RE: COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse - by hazard - 04-30-2020, 03:29 AM

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