With an exceptionally high vaccine takeup rate in the UK’s adult population, blanket CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus policies can no longer be justified, a government adviser said on Wednesday. Professor Andrew Hayward, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), made the remarks when asked if the UK should follow Germany…
Australia Still Has a ‘Long Journey’ Before Reaching Herd Immunity: Expert
July 12, 2021
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One of Australia’s leading medical research institutes specialising in COVID-19 has said the country still has a long way to go before achieving herd immunity. Modelling (pdf) from the Burnet Institute on the Victorian second wave suggested the vaccination threshold should be around 60-80 percent of the population, assuming the vaccines have 50 percent efficacy…
Orange County’s Herd Immunity Goal in Question
Health officials in Orange County, Calif. say they’re optimistic 70 percent of eligible residents will be inoculated against COVID-19 by Independence Day. However, it’s unclear whether the county will accomplish its July 4 herd immunity goal. “There’s a lot of talk as to [whether] herd immunity is even possible at this time due to all…
Orange County Vaccination Figures Surpass 1.5 Million
More than 1.5 million people in Orange County, Calif. are fully inoculated against COVID-19, the Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) says. Data from its tracking platform revealed on May 26 that 1,500,870 people have completed their vaccination cycles. An additional 351,541 patients received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. “We’re optimistic that we…
Amish, Mennonite Communities in Pennsylvania May Have Reached Herd Immunity: Medical Center
Amish and Mennonite communities in a Pennsylvania county may have reached immunity for the CCP virus, according to a local health official. Allen Hoover, an administrator at the Parochial Medical Center in the heart of the Amish community in Lancaster County’s New Holland Borough, said he believes as many as nine in 10 households in the…
Top US Health Official Not Sure Herd Immunity Will be Reached in Coming Months
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has said he’s unsure whether herd immunity will be reached in the United States in the coming months. In an interview with The Hill, Collins said that achieving herd immunity will depend on whether people who are hesitant to receive the vaccine for COVID-19, the…
Fauci Says Children ‘Probably’ Need COVID-19 Vaccines for Herd Immunity to Be Reached
Children will ‘probably’ have to get the COVID-19 vaccine for the United States to reach herd immunity against the CCP virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday at a Senate hearing on the response to the pandemic. “I have been saying lately, calculation, and it’s purely an estimate of 70 to 85 percent of the population….
America Getting Closer to Herd Immunity Every Day: Fauci
The United States is projected to reach herd immunity against the virus from China by the end of summer or early fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday, adding that people can begin to change their behaviors as more and more people get vaccinated. “We don’t want to get too hung up on reaching this,…
Australia Must End Obsession With Reaching Zero CCP Virus Cases: Health Expert
March 10, 2021
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Australia has been told that it needs to move on from its “fascination with zero cases” of the CCP virus and return to pre-COVID-19 normality, a health expert has said. Prof. Shitij Kapur, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, said the nation had done a good job with the handling…
Biden Envisions Life With Fewer Masks, Less Social Distancing If Pandemic Response Goes Well
February 17, 2021
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President Joe Biden believes that by the end of the year, life in America will be less onerous in terms of restrictions relating to COVID-19, but cautioned that he could be wrong. “All the experts, all the committee that I put together—the leading researchers in the world and the United States are on this committee…
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