Is Herd Immunity Possible With A Large Vaccine-Hesitant Population?

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Here are the best answers science has to a myriad of commonly asked questions.

Herd immunity is a phrase that’s been used very often over the past year, but remains poorly understood by the general public. The idea is that a deadly disease, much like an apex predator, can easily overcome an individual, isolated prey animal, particularly if the animal is vulnerable or otherwise weak.

the viral load experienced by vaccinated, infected individuals is significantly lower than the viral load experienced by unvaccinated, infected individuals, particle that has caused so much death and suffering in the world. Failing to take proper precautions isn't bravery; it's recklessness.This is a good — and scary — question. Each time a living organism replicates, even a virus whose classification as “living” or “organism” is highly debatable, it does so by making a copy of the nucleic acids that determine its genetic code.

The vaccines that are available today — each and every one of them — have passed a series of rigorous, peer-reviewed, large-scale clinical trials, finding no risk factors that were greater among the vaccinated group than the non-vaccinated group. Nonetheless, there will be instances where people get the vaccine and then, seemingly immediately, get sick and/or die.

The short answer is, to be honest, doubly disappointing. We aren’t sure whether herd immunity can ever be reached for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and even if it can be reached, we don’t know what that percentage is, but it’s suspected to be a high number: greater than 70% of the population, and possibly as high as 90% or more.

 

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How herd immunity is possible if the actual vaccines don't prevent to contract the virus and transmit it? 😂😂

Everyone in Florida has been dead since the summer. Seriously everyone is dead there because they did the opposite of California where Covid got stomped out and doesn’t exist.

Nope. Good luck

Herd immunity is a myth

Yes I’m a leading scientist

Yeah bc those who don’t get vaccine will eventually have antibodies from the infection

horrible

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