COVID herd immunity will not happen in 2021, says WHO

[thackney]

COVID herd immunity will not happen in 2021, says WHO
https://www.dw.com/en/covid-herd-immunity-will-not-happen-in-2021-says-who/a-56197701
11.01.2021

World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Monday that herd immunity to the coronavirus would not be achieved in 2021, despite the growing availability of vaccines.

Mitigating factors to herd immunity include limited access to vaccines in developing countries, skepticism about vaccination and the potential for virus mutations, according to health experts. 

A growing number of countries around the world — including the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Germany and other EU countries — are in the first stages of mass-vaccination campaigns.

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a population have immunity to an infection so that it prevents the disease from spreading.

[BassWrangler]

skepticism about vaccination

Thank you Democrats. Party of science!

[Wingnut]

e'F the WHO and the 3rd world shithole country they are from.

[jmyrlefuller]

Weeks turn to months, months turn to years. We have now far exceeded even the Spanish flu in terms of the length of time of restrictions and mandates.