Achieving herd immunity against coronavirus may require vaccination of 90% of the population, Anthony Fauci
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Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, acknowledged in the New York Times interview that has been increasing his estimate of the number of herd immunity.
Fauci said he has been raising estimates in his public pronouncements because he believes Americans are now able to handle the message that a return to normalcy may take longer than expected and that fewer Americans report being skeptical about it. time to get a vaccine.
“When polls said only half of all Americans would get a vaccine, I was saying that the herd’s immunity would take between 70 and 75 percent,” Fauci told the Times. “Back then, when the most recent polls said 60% or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can do a little more of this,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
The Times noted that Fauci a month ago, Fauci began saying that herd immunity would take “70, 75 percent” of vaccinated Americans.
Last week, in a interview with CNBC News, Fauci estimates “between 75 and 80, 85 percent of the population.”
At this level of vaccination, Fauci said, “We would develop an immunity umbrella. This would be able to protect even the vulnerable who have not been vaccinated or those in whom the vaccine has not been effective.”
The more infectious a disease is, the higher the vaccination rate to reach an immunity threshold in the herd. For example, measles, which is believed to be the most infectious disease in the world, needs an immunity in the herd of at least 90%.
Fauci said experts do not know for sure the level of vaccines needed for herd immunity, but initial estimates of 60 to 70 percent were based on early data.
“We have to have a little bit of humility here,” Fauci said in the interview. “It simply came to our notice then. I think the actual range is between 70 and 90 percent. But I won’t say 90%. “
Fauci’s comments come from data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just over a million Americans have received the first of two doses of coronavirus vaccine, and Trump administration officials admit they are unlikely to reach their goal of giving two million Americans the first dose by the end of ‘year.
According to estimates by Johns Hopkins University, more than 327,000 people died in America in the United States and a new CDC “set” forecast for the next four weeks predicts a total of 378,000 to 419,000 deaths from COVID-19 on 16 January.
On Wednesday, more than 3,000 people died for the second day in a row, according to Johns Hopkins data.
However, the Transportation Security Administration on Wednesday recorded 1,191,123 passengers passing through airport checks, most days since the pandemic began in March.