Explainer: What is herd immunity and will it affect the pandemic?

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The outbreak of disease caused by the new coronavirus has raised questions about...

LONDON - The outbreak of disease caused by the new coronavirus has raised questions about a phenomenon known as “herd immunity” and whether it might play a role in how the pandemic progresses.** Herd immunity refers to a situation where enough people in a population have immunity to an infection to be able to effectively stop that disease from spreading.

** With the new coronavirus infection — called COVID-19 — as more and more people become infected, there will be more people who recover and who are then immune to future infection. “But it doesn’t have to be –- and it won’t be –- this way,” said Matthew Baylis, a professor at the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences at Liverpool University.** By reducing the number of people that one person infects — with social distancing measures such as closing schools, working from home, avoiding large gatherings and frequent hand washing — the point at which herd immunity kicks in can be lowered.

 

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Herd immunity is the belief that exposing the population to the virus is a miraculous cure in lieu of a vaccine. It's sheer stupidity.

So should we expect mandatory vaccinations when this rushed, experimental product is ready for market?

2020 is suicidal.

The most important question that should be answered in this report was that which contagious diseases have been eradicated or controlled by means of naturally induced herd immunity in the course of history?

Herd immunity is legal killing, that's what it is, bitch

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