Having trouble understanding SF's strategy around masking—not sure what "slowing the spread" achieves this time absent other programs. Help me steel-man?
Buying time for vaccination? 84% eligible got 1+ vaccine; ~3wks to rise from 83%; now 500 ppl/day of 126k eligible. :/
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The total epidemic size when you reach herd immunity determines the amount of overshoot, so it makes sense to try to keep the epidemic from growing too large, even if there isn't any other endgame.
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My (poor) understanding is that we're unlikely to reach herd immunity in any scenario; have I got that wrong?
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We won't in the sense of "the virus is gone" but we will in the sense of "new outbreaks are about as consequential as RSV going around"
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