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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
If an entire population is vaccinated with a 95% efficacy vaccine, R0 will be FAR below 1 and the disease will "die out."
82 posted on 05/20/2021 11:48:37 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This is true (although one nitpick: Rt will drop below 1. R0 exists independent of who’s vaccinated since it - by definition - is a measure of spread within a completely vulnerable population).

The smallpox vaccine is only 95% effective and with a mass vaccination campaign, it was wiped off the face of the Earth after ~3,500 years of terrorizing people and killing hundreds of millions of people.


85 posted on 05/20/2021 11:51:58 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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