the point of herd immunity is to vaccinate as many people as possible to protect the small percentage of people who cannot be vaccinated because of other health issues. Lacking a vaccine the "herd immunity" strategy we are working with here is... face masks, social distancing.
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Technically, you just need to vaccinate “enough” people to keep outbreaks from happening where “enough” depends on the infectiousness of the disease. There’s a formula for computing a default level which gives ~60% for COVID and 95% for measles.
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Yeah, I was just saying—from what I’ve seen the past several months—the people who‘ve been (incorrectly) using that term, were always far from epidemiologists, but pretty close to eugenistshttps://twitter.com/themstems/status/1300644730032668674?s=21 …
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He's a health policy professor will you let him off?pic.twitter.com/FKXxuBq318
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This wasn't really an attack on him or you
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I’ve been screaming about this since March!! We never developed herd immunity against diseases with higher r0 values, like measles (which is like r12-13, covid is r2-3) and chicken pox. Def need better reporting that explains herd immunity is tied to vaccination not infection.
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The problem is that people see a catchy phrase like "herd immunity" and run with it without really understanding it. It's so frustrating because their argument is often something like "well you said it, and now you don't believe in it because it doesn't fit your narrative?"
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I still think they used "herd immunity" because they simply needed a catchy term for their "do nothing and let the weak and the poors die" strategy.
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Partly this but mostly they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. 'Super-predictors", my arse!
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When did the phrase come into use the way people are using it to mean “let the disease burn through the population?”
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It was made up roughly this past May.
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