Because it somehow keeps coming up, here's my new piece on herd immunity and COVID-19, and why it's still not the silver bullet some people wish forhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/herd-immunity-for-covid-19-is-still-a-terrible-idea-a7ce15354c43 …
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Please explain what this means: “but if these communities change over time then they'll be right where they started off”
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Sure thing. The heterogeneity explanation assumes that this heterogeneity is relatively fixed - i.e. that people who spread disease more are the same over time. But if people move around within the community, change jobs etc, then the heterogeneity has minimal impact
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Social distance, mask, testing, contact tracing, cough/sneeze hygiene, and wash your hands. Pretty much all you can do to keep out the virus. If in spite of everything, it breaks through, treatment. Death rate is low, what makes it complex is the rate at which it spreads.
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I'm confused as to how "we get out of this mess" if herd immunity is not the silver bullet and social distancing has been in place for months yet we are still in the thick of the mess. Where and how does it end? Vaccines certainly have not eradicated flu.
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