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We may never achieve long-term global herd immunity for COVID. But if we’re all vaccinated, we’ll be safe from the worst – The Conversation AU
It’s quite likely this virus will never be eliminated from the world. But even so, getting vaccinated enormously reduces your risk of severe outcomes like hospitalisation…

In early 2020, during the first thrashes of the pandemic, we were all talking about herd immunity.
At that stage, many commentators were arguing we should let COVID-19 rip through populations so we could get enough people immune to the virus that it would stop spreading. As I argued at the time, this was a terrible idea that would overwhelm hospitals and gravely sicken and kill many people.
Now we have safe and effective vaccines, we can aim to reach herd immunity in a much safer way. Its certainly…
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