Posted on 02/19/2021 3:30:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Over the last six weeks, new cases of infection of the coronavirus have dropped an astonishing 77 percent. Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and observes: “If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill.”
Has the number of infections really dropped by 77 percent in 6 weeks?
According to the CDC COVID Data Tracker, there were 283,640 new cases on January 2, 2021. As of February 17, there were 69,165 cases. That represents a drop of 75.05 percent in six weeks — for all you fact-checkers out there.(CDC COVID Data Tracker)
But Makary points out that the vaccine hasn’t been totally responsible for the drop. He makes a strong case that “natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing.”
Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.
Now add people getting vaccinated. As of this week, 15% of Americans have received the vaccine, and the figure is rising fast. Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimates 250 million doses will have been delivered to some 150 million people by the end of March.
Makary is predicting “herd immunity” by April. He realizes that herd immunity is a loaded political phrase, but he’s got the evidence to back it up.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Many experts, along with politicians and journalists, are afraid to talk about herd immunity. The term has political overtones because some suggested the U.S. simply let Covid rip to achieve herd immunity. That was a reckless idea. But herd immunity is the inevitable result of viral spread and vaccination. When the chain of virus transmission has been broken in multiple places, it’s harder for it to spread—and that includes the new strains.
Herd immunity has been well-documented in the Brazilian city of Manaus, where researchers in the Lancet reported the prevalence of prior Covid-19 infection to be 76%, resulting in a significant slowing of the infection. Doctors are watching a new strain that threatens to evade prior immunity. But countries where new variants have emerged, such as the U.K., South Africa and Brazil, are also seeing significant declines in daily new cases.
Miraculously happened the Day Trump left office. What were the odds?
How are they going to keep ginning up the fear?
Certainly NOT by “follow the science!”
Boy that Biden, what a guy.
And without vaccines before he was inaugurated... /s
Ramp up PCR cycles?
New strain?
Open up?
Wall St crash?
TRUMPRID-19
Does anybody remember this?
One hour after Biden inaugurated, WHO changes COVID testing criteria
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/one-hour-after-biden-inaugurated-who-changes-covid-testing-criteria
I think they also lowered the reporting standards as they had included so many false positives.
Miraculously happened the Day Trump left office. What were the odds?
The Biden miracle we were promised by the media and blue state bureaucrats.....
Thank God Trump got those vaccines developed is record time.
RE: Miraculously happened the Day Trump left office. What were the odds?
What odds? If you scanned FR last year, you would read TONS of posts predicting exactly this if Joe Biden were to take over the presidency. The legacy media is soooo predictable.
Clearly the combo of vaccines and natural disease shows we are approaching herd immunity. And there is nothing more than the timing. Pandemics run their course in 18-24 months. This has been circulating since November 2019. We are at 15 months and vaccinating. It simply does not take rocket science to understand that which is predictable as sunrise. Despite what some of our friends on this forum would like to believe.
If we have a free media and internet in 4 years this scamdemic will be studied in detail. What they did was actually brilliant but only successful with a willing partner in the media.
Goebbels must be looking up from hell and saying, "if I only had the world media, we Nazis would have won!"
In addition we are probably getting close to herd immunity.
Watch for deaths from the flu, pneumonia, and heart attacks to go up, up, up.
You’re reading my mind.
Has anyone sent this to the idiot Governor of Pennsylvania - who still has the State on lockdown and extended it for another 90 days?
One of those must accur so the Left remains in control...Bet on it
Odds seriously high with Biden election steal!
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