Posted on 08/31/2021 2:05:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA
As the Delta variant continues its global surge, experts are questioning whether the long-held goal of achieving herd immunity from COVID-19 through vaccination is still viable.
Herd immunity is achieved when a certain threshold of the global population has either been inoculated against a pathogen or has recovered from infection.
But whether or not it is achievable with COVID-19, with the regular emergence of more infectious strains, is up for debate.
"If the question is 'will vaccination alone allow us to dampen and control the pandemic?' the answer is: no," epidemiologist Mircea Sofonea told AFP.
He said herd immunity hinged on two basic factors.
"That's the intrinsic infectiousness of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines to protect against infection. And at the moment, that efficacy isn't there."
Delta has shown to be roughly 60 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and up to twice as infectious as the original strain that emerged in late 2019…
… Were vaccines 100 percent effective at stopping Delta infections, that 90 percent could conceivably be possible. Unfortunately, they aren't.
According to data published this week by U.S. authorities, the efficacy of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines at preventing infection has fallen from 91 percent to 66 percent since Delta became the dominant variant.
And studies have shown that the vaccine efficacy against infection with Delta falls over time -- one of the reasons why several countries are now readying for an autumn third shot, or "booster", vaccination campaign.
With all this taken into account, absent other health measures such as mask-wearing or social distancing, Sofonea said it would take more than 100 percent of people to be vaccinated in order to guarantee transmissions end -- an obvious impossibility…
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Ask Sweden. They are doing just fine.
I know, let’s go to India or Africa and ask them what they think
India’s Ivermectin Blackout: Part II - How Delhi Obliterated the Delta Variant
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3988574/posts
Hard to believe people still fall for this garbage.
Delta is the road to herd immunity
Lessee.
The notavax won’t stop people from getting the CCP flu and it won’t stop them from spreading CCP flu.
At this point I would say there ain’t gonna be any ‘herd immunity.’
I heard a commentator say today, basically, everyone is going to get COVID - some will be vaccinated, some won’t. Choose wisely
Ditto
The goal posts have been continuously moved every few weeks.
Here is Joe recently telling us, we don’t need masks if vaccinated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6iFMkp7ckw
Polio- no herd immunity
Smallpox - no herd immunity
Measles - no herd immunity
achieving herd immunity from COVID-19 through vaccination is still viable.
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I was under the impression that here immunity was about folks getting it all at once, basically. Getting over it. So everyone has the antibodies.
Isn’t that Why they used to ChickenPox parties back in the day? So, all the kids got it at once.
I thought the drugs/shots, “vaccines” were the exact opposite.
Many on here do. Amazing.
Have vaccines been developed for all of them?
If so, how were those vaccines developed? Were they developed by using the virus itself?
I for one am looking forward to the Doomsday variant with new and improved lies, scare techniques, and now with even MORE boosters!
Not reading it, they gave away their bias in the title.
Where is the Biden Covid plan?
The one Trump was supposedly missing?
No.
My wife and I (70) got COVID. No worse than a summer cold. D3 and Zinc seem to ward off dangerous symptoms. Amazon should offer Ivermectin as over-the-counter.
If 100% of people were vaccinated all over the world...
The delta variant would spread like crazy.
This article makes _no_ sense.
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