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Coronavirus: World ‘nowhere close’ to herd immunity, says WHO – Daily Telegraph
Talk of vaccines is all the rage. But another much discussed, and very controversial, way out of the coronavirus crisis has been the concept of natural “herd immunity” where enough people become infected and then immune to COVID-19 that the virus struggles to…
Talk of vaccines is all the rage. But another much discussed, and very controversial, way out of the coronavirus crisis has been the concept of natural herd immunity where enough people become infected and then immune to COVID-19 that the virus struggles to infect anybody else.
Some analysis has suggested that could be achieved with as few as 20 per cent of people becoming infected.
But the World Health Organisation (WHO) has now poured cold water on the idea declaring we’re “nowhere close” t…
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