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Not completely, no, but we can eliminate it from general circulation and then stamp down hard on any outbreaks with test, trace and aggressive isolation. That should be achievable with the help of th… (View Post)

From the original article at https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/covid-19-herd-immunity-strategy-flawed-until-we-have-coronavirus-vaccine-professor-devi-sridhar-2981017: The term ‘herd i… (View Post)

Why does everyone seem to ignore the effect of the vaccines on the spread of the virus? Bringing down the R rate is much more valuable than bringing down the IFR, because its effect multiplies week a… (View Post)

If it has escaped from there, it doesn't necessarily mean it was developed there. Could just be one they had collected from the wild. It could even have been from an animal they'd only just brought i… (View Post)

I'd press Like if it wasn't so sad and infuriating. (I think the other big mistake was not to open the schools first and assess the impact of that before opening anything else. And of course EOTHO.) (View Post)