Lancet: Herd immunity is a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence

Uncontrolled transmission in younger people risks significant morbidity and mortality across the whole population.

In addition to the human cost, this would impact the workforce as a whole and overwhelm the ability of health-care systems to provide acute and routine care. Furthermore, there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection, and the endemic transmission that would be the consequence of waning immunity would present a risk to vulnerable populations for the indefinite future.

Continues at the Lancet

 

Children’s hospitals across Canada overwhelmed by Covid, RSV & flu

 

 

 

 

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