WHO questions UK response
Source: The Guardian
World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris has questioned the UKs approach to developing herd immunity against Covid-19.
Dr Harris told BBC Radio 4s Today: We dont know enough about the science of this virus, it hasnt been in our population for long enough for us to know what it does in immunological terms.
Every virus functions differently in your body and stimulates a different immunological profile. We can talk theories, but at the moment we are really facing a situation where we have got to look at action.
You can read more about herd immunity, and its use with coronavirus, here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/herd-immunity-will-the-uks-coronavirus-strategy-work
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Watch Donny Six Words start talking about herd immunity.
modrepub
(3,496 posts)What's a few deaths anyway; it'll just be "old" people. (I'm being extremely sarcastic)
Of course, this assumes that those who are infected will actually build up an immunity (and the virus won't mutate nullifying that immunity). Nothing like being used as some type of sick science experiment (by those who disregard scientific opinion in the first place).
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)It's just a single strand of RNA and - just like the common cold - is very prone to mutating, so we can get it over and over again over a period of time.
Igel
(35,317 posts)Just as there are far more ways for a virus to avoid current antibodies than to run afoul of pre-existing ones.
Mutations favor re-infection. Mutations favor mild.
We live in a probabilistic universe. Hail Entropy!
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)But I would like to know the logic behind 'mutations favor mild.' I am not disputing it particularly. But it seems to me that mutations - being random - could have many different impacts on the infectioousness and/or lethality of the virus, and whatever makes it more able to survive to reproduce is what will endure.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Some (many) will die, but the rest will develop heard immunity (hopefully). Seems immunity doesn't last long with this coronavirus.
gembaby1
(253 posts)The irresponsible lout.