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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by wefarrell on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:01AM (#26738165)
Over the summer there was speculation that neighborhoods in NYC had achieved herd immunity and the threshold was much lower at ~40%(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/health/coronavirus-herd-i...).

The thinking was that some people within a community are interacting with many more people than others and that they would be more likely to have antibodies.

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Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19 by kmeisthax on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:10AM (#26738856)
Yes, but the problem is that you can't really use "likelihood of spread" as a vaccine priority criterion: it's non-scarce. Anyone who wants a shot early will just lie about how many people they interact with, or worse, actually increase that number to try and get an early vaccine.
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