Dr. David Katz: Coronavirus vaccine or herd immunity are only ways life can fully return to normal
"Dr. David Katz, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in Connecticut, has warned that while social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, it is also preventing the development of the "herd immunity" needed by the public to resume their normal lives before a vaccine is developed.
Katz cited the case of some Asian nations who appeared to stop the spread with lockdown-style mitigation strategies, only to see an increase in cases once restrictions were relaxed."
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So I ask the question....is he right? By SD and locking down everything are we just holding back the inevitable? That is that this virus will work it's way through the culture whether we like it or not but we're just doing it a very slow way? Not to say a slow way isn't better so as not to flood the hospitals BUT if numbers start surging again should we really be panicked and in despair? Maybe we need to know we'd attain herd immunity eventually?
"Dr. David Katz, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in Connecticut, has warned that while social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, it is also preventing the development of the "herd immunity" needed by the public to resume their normal lives before a vaccine is developed.
Katz cited the case of some Asian nations who appeared to stop the spread with lockdown-style mitigation strategies, only to see an increase in cases once restrictions were relaxed."
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So I ask the question....is he right? By SD and locking down everything are we just holding back the inevitable? That is that this virus will work it's way through the culture whether we like it or not but we're just doing it a very slow way? Not to say a slow way isn't better so as not to flood the hospitals BUT if numbers start surging again should we really be panicked and in despair? Maybe we need to know we'd attain herd immunity eventually?