Vaccination doesn't protect you from Chinese disease, and it doesn't last anyway.
Since the earliest days of the scamdemic, there has been one collective goal for bringing it to an end: achieving herd immunity. That’s when so many people are immune to a virus that it runs out of potential hosts to infect, causing an outbreak to sputter out.
The projection was that 70%. then 80% then 85% of the population was vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus would go away and the scamdemic would be over.
Now the herd is restless. And experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have set aside herd immunity as a national goal.
The prospects for meeting a clear herd-immunity target are “very complicated,” said Dr. Jefferson Jones, a medical officer on the CDC’s COVID-19 Epidemiology Task Force.
“Thinking that we’ll be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones admitted last week to members of a panel that advises the CDC on vaccines.
No vaccine has proved reliable at blocking transmission of the virus, Jones noted. Recent evidence has also made clear that the immunity supposedly provided by vaccines can wane in a matter of months.
To Dr. Oliver Brooks, a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, it was a sobering new message, with potentially worrisome effects.
A public tack away from the promise of herd immunity may also further undermine the CDC’s credibility. On issues ranging from the use of masks to how the virus spreads, the agency has made some dramatic about-faces over the course of the scamdemic.
The CDC’s new approach will reflect this uncertainty. Instead of specifying a vaccination target that promises an end to the scamdemic, public health officials hope to redefine success.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2021/11/cdc-takes-stock-backs-away-from-covid-19-herd-immunity-goal.html