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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by Alex3917 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:56PM (#22881595)
> Imagine if 10+% of the population already had COVID and where immune

By some estimates we need over 80% of the population to get it in order to achieve herd immunity, so if only 10% of the population has it we're not very close at all to this being over.

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by tomerico on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:50PM (#22882217)
The first 10% to be infected, are also likely to be the highest spreaders (people in close contact with a high amount of strangers). The effect should hopefully be higher than 10% reduction in the reproduction rate.
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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by chrisco255 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:02PM (#22883618)
If 10% already have it wouldn't that mean we're only a few weeks away from it fizzling out, given the rapid rate at which it spreads?
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