What is herd immunity and how do we reach it?

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Most experts agree containment of Covid-19 is no longer possible, but what is the threshold for reaching herd immunity?

Pandemics typically end in one of two ways: cases are tracked and isolated or a population achieves herd immunity, often with the help of a vaccine. Most experts agree containment of the coronavirus is no longer possible. What about herd immunity?Angela Rasmussen: When enough people in a population are immune to the virus, it can’t find a new host, and therefore, it won’t be able to spread through that population. This applies mostly to viruses, which need a host to replicate.

 

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Give everybody a big hug jk

Ask Sweden

Herd immunity = new buzz word. Like synergy will be over used until it makes no sense.

it’s a red herring and we don’t

Seems to be that people do not understand herd immunity very well! Death tolls are inevitable that is essentially how natural herd immunity propogates🙄.. its not just a case of immunity! It’s a case of removing the highest target group!! Essentially that’s already happened !

Obfuscation.

Just by spreading the love. 🤫

Early action could have controlled the of people who got the disease and it might not then have become what it will be, a constant, perennial scourge of human existence. No longer. Herd immunity from infection or vaccination is definitely not the best course. Covid19 Pandemic

I've heard due to T cells herd immunity could be reached with as little as 10-20% of people being infected. I got this info from highly respected scientists, so why isn't this mentioned. More doom mongering from the Guardian

This is more or less a sensitisation on the subject matter, 'herd immunity'. Doctors Rasmussen, D'Souza and Lipsitch have all spoken out their perceptions on the discourse, virologically& epidemiologically respectively. I doubt if our modern World wants its immune system herded.

Just keep letting people pile into pubs and leave beaches open, Job done.

As your body cant tell if its a virus Co2 or a tiger its frightened of and its a very unhealthy way to live, and you've got millions of children terrified having nightmares about the climate, based on predictions which are never even nearly accurate , shame on you.

Antibodies aren’t a good way to measure herd immunity at all. They tend to wear off and not everyone produces them. With evidence suggesting that cellular immunity plays a bigger role, with a significant percentage having preexisting immunity from other viruses.

I was talking to some experts about that

Why wasn't Dr Dominic Cummings on the panel?

Exactly, as the famous phrase goes: It's the Herd Immunity, Stupid! LockdownsKill

Herd immunity is err.....where the herd is/mostly immune? I mean, I know enough English to recognise those words. In all seriousness, herd immunity is where every country will end up. This isn't shocking, it's just how we get there.

Herd immunity is the only way out of this, pretending otherwise will cause more needless harm and destruction.

You can’t due to mutation changes, this virus acts different on different humans not sure about animals.

We won’t. There is no vaccine. Therefore people are not immune.

so we are going to just throw everyone to the wolves and hope things don't get any worse? 👆🥶😡i'll be stopping in for the forssable future then 👆🥶

'Most experts agree containment of Covid-19 is no longer possible' Is predicted by SAGE in February/March. And when the government tried to reflect that advise, it was accused of murdering people.

Maybe you reach it never..... bc mutation.

It's a cold virus, we all have colds and flu so we probably all have some immunity built up. Why this hysteria.

Sweden try that and it failed epicly

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