Some MYTHS about COVID-19: - that herd immunity is inevitable - that epidemiologists love lockdowns - that it is less lethal than flu - that we can easily protect "the vulnerable" - that we can "let it rip" without cost
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Modellers are calling the point when S = 1/R0 the herd immunity threshold, maybe we should change. My main question is, what's the MYTH in the first bullet point? The flu strains in the last four pandemics went endemic & we recognise something fundamental changed when they did.
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Simple - if we end up with a regularly outbreaking endemic disease - as is the case with most 'common cold' coronaviruses - then we won't have reached herd immunity by any reasonable definition
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