04-30-2021, 12:20 AM
sekker wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
Few agree on what herd immunity is in terms of a percentage of vaccination. I've written this here before, but early on in the lockdown, there was an npr show with a show featuring infectious disease researchers, saying herd immunity can be achieved with as few as 40% of population. So, the variable from 40 to 80 is very wide.
I know of no reputable public health scientists that advocate for herd immunity at the 40% level. Plenty of 'I slept at a Holiday Inn so now I'm a public health expert' during the early days of COVID, however.
It _was_ the early days, but the experts on this particular program made certain to say that no one knows. And 40% was the least amount, obviously. I'll try to find it but it was quite a while ago.