I think one of the most misunderstood points about "herd immunity" is the word "immunity" If your scenario foresees COVID-19 becoming endemic it is not herd immunity
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Replying to @GidMK
Not exactly. Immunity is a matter of degree and: “herd immunity carries a variety of meanings. Some use it to describe the proportion immune among individuals in a population. Others use it with reference to a particular threshold"https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/52/7/911/299077 …
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Replying to @ID_ethics
That article is a beautifully nuanced piece on the challenges of herd immunity in the context of vaccination, but does not disagree with the main arguments in my thread
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