How many people need to be vaccinated for life to go back to normal?

Posted by longdefeat on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:43PM
from the qz.com dept.

https://qz.com/1941409/how-many-people-need-to-be-vaccinated-for-a-return-to-normal/

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Re:How many people need to be vaccinated for life to go back... by nof1 on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:52PM (#25307767)

From article: In the US, this would mean vaccinating between 197 million and 230 million citizens. Globally, it’d be between 4.7 billion and 5.5 billion people.

Though that depends on the equitable distribution of the vaccination

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Re:How many people need to be vaccinated for life to go back... by verdverm on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:12PM (#25308897)

What is equitable distribution? Should those who got the placebo during testing be first? Should the elderly or the essential worker come first? How should we account for counties' success / failure, and their current situation in distributing vaccines? Should we account for a country's likeliness for internal equitability? What about their capability for distribution, given the mRNA require expensive cooling systems?

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