A rather meaningless term, statistically and medically.
Simply adding the two figures is misleading. Some number of the people who have been infected previously with mild or asymptomatic cases have also been vaccinated. Many of them wouldn’t even know they had been infected previously.
Further, those who’ve had mild or asymptomatic cases have been shown to have low levels of neutralizing antibodies which quickly dissipate. The infection they experienced triggered a relatively weak immune response. They’re vulnerable to reinfection, particularly with the South African variant, which has shown a level of resistance to the neutralizing antibodies formed after infections from other variants.
The two vaccines currently authorized for use in the United States provide sufficient levels of neutralizing antibodies to protect against all known variants. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine does NOT provide significant protection against the South African variant, but it’s not terrible against the others.
Herd immunity?
Moo!
Put us in the chutes.
We don’t get TV but I visited a buddy last night and on the news they were showing kids getting the vaccine. They’re “testing” it on kids to see if it’s ok to give it to them. They’re hoping it will lessen the symptoms if they get covid. Meanwhile, kids aren’t really affected by covid.
Insanity. Half the news was vaccine, vaccine, vaccine.
TPTB really really want everyone to get the vaccine and I don’t trust TPTB.
Took the flu vaccine once and it made me sicker than the flu ever has.
My wife started working at a nursing home 8-9 years ago and we got the flu every year, sometimes twice a year for a few years and then it stopped. We haven’t been sick in 4 years now. Guess we got every variant and are immune now.
I think we’ll just stick with that method.
Who estimated the infection rate?
Official AZ estimates are like 11% or maybe 14%.
Far from 44% listed here.
Looks to me like some Democrat trying to badmouth Republican Governors. See all the Democratic run states on the bottom of the infection rate.
After all the LIES that have been put our in the last year, who even believes this mierda anymore?
It’s no accident that many of the lower population percentages are with the earlier-to-get-covid states. Loads of infections were not detected because they only tested the very ill.
The Dakotas were at the very end. Anyone who wanted a test could get one.
My state, Virginia, is run by a “herd” of Democrat Party jackasses. The only immunity they have is from common sense, fiscal responsibility, prosecuting many types of crime, getting rid of illegal aliens (esp. the dangerous ones), keeping taxes down, and doing things efficiently.
They have reached “herd immunity”, known to sane people as “herd insanity”.
Their new state slogan is “Yes we are”!
Disgusting that the media now talks about herd immunity but if someone in the Trump administration ever mentioned it they would automatically be judged as cruel because they wanted everyone to get it rather than trying to stop everyone from getting it.
