Re:WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
by jMyles on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:17PM
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It depends on the nature of the infectious disease and how quickly vaccines and therapeutics are developed.
When vaccines are delivered - especially in places where supply chains are less developed - it's important to consider how to get them into the arms where they'll give the most benefit. Part of this is trying to focus vaccines on sub-populations that aren't already herd immune from acquired immunity.
This concept is called "overshoot" (ie, you don't want to "overshoot" immunity in some sub-populations, leaving others without enough vaccine supply). There are epidemiologists who specialize specifically on overshoot, as it is one of the key problems in infectious disease response in developing nations.
Any source on that? As far as I know every disease that would still continue to decimate us, we managed to counter through vaccines, antibiotics or general availability of some other drug. Natural immunity does work in selected individuals but if it would work in sufficient quantities, a given disease would not spread? Like, don’t you think that the cases should start decreasing or at least platou already since we’ve been fighting this virus for a year already?
Of course exponential growth is not sustainable and once it will decrease from natural immunity (or because so many people died that the average distance between people greatly increases) but I would rather not wait for a significant portion of humanity to die when there are solutions on the horizon.