Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

On 31/07/2020 14:05, Robert Hettinga wrote:

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On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:

I: Well, we're the survivors - we are that part of the herd that did not die.

And the survival rate of Covid-19 is somewhere north of 99 percent.

Er, no. It's actually about 97-98% overall, more for some subgroups like the old, fat or lung-y, less for the young. And that doesn't include the later deaths due to the long-term organ damage which occurs in 5-10% of cases. Just sayin' Peter Fairbrother