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Re:Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications fo... by matthewdgreen on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:13PM (#24723380)
I mean, this seems to be the basic understanding of every single epidemiologist and public health expert, and also correlates with everything we know about the physical mechanism of how COVID spreads.
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Re:Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications fo... by ars on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:19PM (#24724054)
To me it seems like a covid infection is inevitable. You can delay it, but if you look at the state-by-state figures: states that successfully delayed for a while eventually got hit, states that got hit did not get additional infections.

I get the idea of flatten the curve but states that already got hit hard don't really have any reason to impose additional restrictions they wouldn't do anything.

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