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Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by Retric on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:57AM (#24968746)
An effective vaccine in the near future is a much better option than natural herd immunity due to the lives lost.

Longer term it gets interesting because young people are at a dramatically lower risk of death and older people will have been exposed several times. So, if things go endemic it’s likely for long term annual deaths to be dramatically lower.

PS: The error bars in what you linked are very wide repressing significant uncertainty around those tests.

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Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by ethbr0 on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:08AM (#24968860)
As you noted, a vaccine allows us to target immunity, typically by risk profile, as we currently do with common cold viruses.

Herd immunity does not.

So while less virus circulating due to greater population immunity (and therefore lower individual risk of infection) is good, it doesn't help when SARS-CoV-2 does chance into a nursing home.

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