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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by random32840 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:08AM (#23290253)
Cambridge recently released a study estimating that 9% or so of the UK population already have antibodies. You only need to get to ~60% and (assuming it doesn't become endemic) you have herd immunity, it doesn't matter that the virus is here to stay.
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by pvaldes on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:29AM (#23290339)
We don't even know still if immunity would last for more than a couple of months, it seems that would be a short duration issue in any case, so the herd immunity plan has some loopholes on it.
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by oxfordmale on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:25AM (#23290314)
There is a paper (not peer reviewed) that suggests that herd immunity starts occurring around 20% as long as mass gatherings remain are banned. If true life could go back to normal a lot quicker.
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