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Re:Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications fo... by timr on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:58PM (#24723881)
Population immunity has to be on the list: if the population has some level of immunity, it affects the observed R0. And we can't really measure immunity, other than in very crude ways (i.e. antibody tests for specific epitopes), so we can't control for it.

This isn't a political statement of any sort.

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