Re:Amish community in Lancaster County reaches herd immunity...
by filoeleven on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:48PM
(#28081983)
> Experts at a New Holland Borough Healthcare Center said around 90% of households dealt with at least one coronavirus case after churches reopened last year.
I’m not confident that that metric equates to what that doctor says it does. There’s no mention of how an infected person in a household was treated. I guess the assumption is that they were not quarantined from the rest of the household, but I’d like to see self-reports if nothing else.
The Amish are already a fairly isolated group, so (speculation) if most of their COVID cases are “people who have more dealings with Englishers,” which I would expect to be the case, then even if their incidence is lower than reported, their more external-facing folks might have a high-enough level of immunity to stop it spreading. It depends a lot on how people with COVID-like symptoms are treated within the community though, and this story and its links say nothing about that.
I’m not confident that that metric equates to what that doctor says it does. There’s no mention of how an infected person in a household was treated. I guess the assumption is that they were not quarantined from the rest of the household, but I’d like to see self-reports if nothing else.
The Amish are already a fairly isolated group, so (speculation) if most of their COVID cases are “people who have more dealings with Englishers,” which I would expect to be the case, then even if their incidence is lower than reported, their more external-facing folks might have a high-enough level of immunity to stop it spreading. It depends a lot on how people with COVID-like symptoms are treated within the community though, and this story and its links say nothing about that.