Covid herd immunity is probably impossible

Re:Covid herd immunity is probably impossible by e79 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:35PM (#26505283)

This is a lot less depressing when you consider that vaccines have shown astounding results so far at preventing disease. COVID is a lot less scary if you’re extremely unlikely to get very sick from it. This article touches on that a bit, but it’s buried until the end.

There’s a lot of optimism to be had here, I think. Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good — maybe we can’t eradicate COVID, but we can make it a lot more tolerable to share this planet with it.

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Re:Covid herd immunity is probably impossible by dennis_jeeves on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:48PM (#26505411)

>This is a lot less depressing when you consider that vaccines have shown astounding results so far at preventing disease.

I'm less convinced by the common narrative. It appears that sanitation and nutrition played a key role in preventing diseases and co-coincided with wide spread vaccine use. Put another way vaccines did not work where sanitation + nutrition was abysmal.

(Cannot find references, because I came across them a long time back))

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Re:Covid herd immunity is probably impossible by thehappypm on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:21PM (#26505761)

You cannot find references because this is total nonsense.

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