Health
‘R’ rate hits lowest level in 10 months with herd immunity possible by July – Telegraph.co.uk
UCL scientists believe rate as of Tuesday was 0.65 to 0.86, better than Government’s earlier estimate of 0.7 to 1.1
Professor Karl Friston, the scientific director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL, who led the research, said: “The bottom line is that vaccination appears to be having a tangible effect on confirmed new cases and daily death rates recorded over the past few weeks.
“If the vaccination programme continues to unfold at its current pace and lockdown is eased gradually as a function of declining prevalence we might attain herd immunity by as early as July.
“This encouraging perhaps…
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