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A light at the end of the COVID tunnel? A health policy expert and surgeon at Johns Hopkins University says the United States is a few months away from nearing herd immunity
American Thinker ^ | 02/21/2021 | Jeff Crouere

Posted on 02/21/2021 9:24:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A dreadful year of COVID madness, with crazy recommendations such as wearing double-masks, is, hopefully, nearing an end.

According to Dr. Marty Makary, a health policy expert and surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, the United States is nearing herd immunity, which refers to a situation in a community when enough people are immune to a disease to prevent its spread to others who are not protected. This immunity can be achieved through vaccines and natural infection.

Sadly, the hysterical mainstream news media, their allies in Big Tech, along with the Biden administration and many Democratic governors, are not reporting the good news that is happening in the country. Their motivation is to keep Americans in a state of total fear. Fortunately, the good news is overwhelming the attempts to suppress the truth.

In a recent Fox News interview, Makary noted that "[t]here is a 77% reduction in daily cases over the last six weeks. You, as a scientist, have to ask why. We cannot explain that by vaccinated immunity. We can't explain it by a sudden change in behavior. It is natural immunity, and it's now over 50% of the population."

Instead of celebrating this news, Democratic governors and President Joe Biden among others are doubling down on the COVID mandates. A recent example is Biden's new executive order requiring the wearing of masks on all federal property.

In a Wall Street Journal article, Makary wrote that the country currently has an "extremely low level of infection." He predicted that at the "current trajectory, I expect COVID will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; herdimmunity; johnshopkins
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To: SeekAndFind

Disappearing like magic.


21 posted on 02/21/2021 10:18:41 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Antihero101607; All

So, we can “hold out” for another couple of months and Don’t get the vaccine, and be fine then since the virus will fizzle out and not be a threat?


22 posted on 02/21/2021 10:25:55 AM PST by Bob434
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To: PUGACHEV

that is the psychic sylvia browne’s prediction

“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again 10 years later, and then disappear completely,”


23 posted on 02/21/2021 10:33:05 AM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: Slyfox

I did find April 16 is the day that would be the stupid bug that is when the daily coronavirus conference is no longer featured Dr. Deborah Berks or Dr. idiot Fauci

The morons convinced Trump to do the 15 days to slow the spread they Marshall the federal resources brilliantly figure the whole thing out and started talking about opening up America again on that date

As we know this entire thing is just a giant communist/Democrat plied to take out Donald Trump and usher in the hundreds of millions of “mail in” ballots which secured his fraudulent defeat

This fact however remains. Fraud vitiates everything


24 posted on 02/21/2021 10:33:06 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Swamp express to communist hell !! )
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To: Truthoverpower
That is true. The opening was supposed to be a real opening, but somehow it didn't open the way we were promised and that was exactly when they began to ramp up all the death and cases stats.

We have been stuck in Fauci's delusion - the Event 201 matrix.

We need Sunshine.

25 posted on 02/21/2021 10:41:18 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: PubliusMM

Yes, THAT herd immunity, Publius.


26 posted on 02/21/2021 10:45:53 AM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: Grampa Dave

In the hospital ER I work in in the past two months there has been a significant drop in the number of Covid admissions. They can’t keep this up forever, no matter how hard they try.


27 posted on 02/21/2021 11:08:21 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Grampa Dave; Syncro; NormsRevenge; marsh2; sasquatch; forester; Anybody; Everybody; ...

That’s what I herd from a local nerd! At first I thought it abserd, but on second thought I thought, what would Fauchi, the world fomost authority (just like professor Irwin Corey) do???


28 posted on 02/21/2021 11:13:25 AM PST by SierraWasp (MASA (Make America Straight Again!!!))
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To: SeekAndFind
I just donated my Plasma with COVID Antibodies in it, here in New Jersey.

The technician told me that they will stop taking these donations in April,
because between the Vaccines & all the people who've already had it,
this treatment will no longer be needed.

29 posted on 02/21/2021 11:59:23 AM PST by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
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To: Slyfox

No, it’s not. It historically has been used when R0 drops below 1 due to enough of the population having said virus (ie the level of which the virus starts to burn itself out as the next wave is fewer than the previous). What % of the population you need to have had it depends on what the “core” R0 is.


30 posted on 02/21/2021 12:22:01 PM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: webheart

Completely, yet, but one month from now we’ll be nearly there.


31 posted on 02/21/2021 12:22:53 PM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: rb22982
Completely, yet, but one month from now we’ll be nearly there.

We are nearly there right now. We are 1/3 of our peak in January just before Joe's inauguration.

32 posted on 02/21/2021 12:24:23 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes, but we’re still above last summer’s peak even with the big drop off. We’re at the early stages of herd immunity likely 50-60%. A month from now we’ll be nearing the lows in the spring pre-Memorial day, which is another 70% below here. By the end of April to mid May, I think cases may be less than 5k/day, which is back to levels last march/april.


33 posted on 02/21/2021 12:29:17 PM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: rb22982
I remember top virologists saying at the time that we had come out of the pandemic in April due to the number of positive "cases" being so high and the number of deaths were almost static. That was an unwanted narrative.

This so-called pandemic has been nothing more than a severe cold virus that politicians and the lapdog media has seen fit to exploit to high heaven.

How else can you explain the 99% chance of living through it.

They made us think this was going to be just like ebola.

They lied to us with their fear porn.

34 posted on 02/21/2021 12:45:27 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: fireman15

The WHO published more guidance abour false pos abd no covid cases without symptoms as soon as biden stepped into the oval office. It was a coup, with 90 days of military presence. We allowed it as we bow to fear of a created crisis.


35 posted on 02/21/2021 1:01:53 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: SeekAndFind

Watch them dictate a 2 mask order for the rest of the year


36 posted on 02/21/2021 1:33:31 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Bob434

“we can “hold out” for another couple of months and Don’t get the vaccine, and be fine then since the virus will fizzle out and not be a threat?”

How old are you and your health status?


37 posted on 02/21/2021 2:02:09 PM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not the losers! Who is rewriting our history??)
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To: Slyfox

I won’t argue with most of what you said but no one said we were out of this in April


38 posted on 02/21/2021 2:29:05 PM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: rb22982
I remember a doctor explaining what herd immunity is scientifically on FOX and a couple of local doctors speaking on our local news that we should be able to look forward to things opening up as they explained herd immunity. I had never heard of herd immunity before. I remember thinking right after listening to them that we should be able to go back to normal and restaurants began to open up in April, then all of a sudden the lockdowns squeezed us down even harder than before. It wasn't until May when the airlines said everyone was going to be required to wear masks while flying. And, again I thought what about the herd immunity?

We have been played and lied to because somebody has an agenda we are being required to follow. For what reason?

This covid has proven to be not anymore deadly than a regular flu.

I hate being lied to.

39 posted on 02/21/2021 4:04:57 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: jmacusa

Latest PA Department of Health stats from Saturday 2/19:

Alleged COVID hospitalizations = 2061

Alleged COVID hospitalizations on peak day (December 20) = 6151.

Very hard to keep ginning up fear and “mask compliance” with hospitalizations now a paltry 33.5% of “peak”.


40 posted on 02/21/2021 9:46:09 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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