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| Topic | So if we need about 70% people to become vaccinated to reach herd immunity... |
| YoukaiSlayer 02/15/21 9:57:45 PM #10: | My understanding is the actual virus only makes you immune for a few months but the vaccine (specifically the 2nd dose) gets your body to keep producing the antibodies for much longer. Also, 70% for herd immunity assumes no other precautions are taken, right? Assuming we still enforce social distancing and masks for a while, the numbers should go down enough for contact tracing to hopefully let us eliminate it entirely. Additionally, the vaccine will hopefully mitigate the risk for most high risk people who can either get the vaccine themselves or at least have a caregiver get the vaccine and stay home as much as possible. I think a reasonable assumption will be that covid will be around for quite a while, but will be pretty rare outside of isolated outbreaks which cause lockdowns in those areas for a few months and even in those cases we should hopefully see the death rate plummet. --- I'm ninja (you can't see me) ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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