Health
Matt Hancock’s measles misunderstanding – The Guardian
Letter: Prof Jeremy Dale takes issue with the health secretary’s views on herd immunity, and is concerned by the ignorance and misinformation circulating
It is depressing that we have a health secretary who does not understand, let alone believe in, herd immunity (Tory rebels fire warning shot as 42 MPs vote against stricter Covid measures, 13 October). The three examples that he quotes of diseases that never reach herd immunity are all incorrect, in different ways.
With malaria, the problem is the lack of individual immunity, and with flu the problem is that different strains of the virus emerge from time to time, bypassing any herd immunity th…
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