Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by rajin444 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:24PM
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How can they know that figure (80%) without knowing % of people with natural immunity? We can guess but there hasn't been much of an effort made to track this.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by mattmanser on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:13PM
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If you mean anti-bodies, then they've been sampling the population and know the percent of people who've got anti-bodies.
If you mean something else, you're a victim of fake news.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by HWR_14 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:28PM
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> The usually bandied figure is 80% immunity to stop the pandemic.
That was pre-Delta. The higher the R0, the more mitigation we need to do. The question is what gets RE below zero.
At this point, with Delta's R0 and the vaccine's effectiveness, it looks like mere vaccination without masks is going to be insufficient in large groups (e.g. at a giant concert, a big play). But, since all the precautions have a multiplier, that's fine. It means we can keep doing those things as long as we take precautions while we do it and not assume vaccine = ignore COVID.
The usually bandied figure is 80% immunity to stop the pandemic.
Without the teenagers vaccinated, that's never going to get hit.
Wait until winter hits and the cases spike, then it's suddenly going to become "necessary", but if they'd made that hard decision 3 months ago this would already be over.