In July 2020, Paul Alexander offered his view of how to make use of the risks of COVID to discrete populations to reach immunity. The idea was that people would eventually become naturally infected with the virus, and therefore they would be immune from further infection and that the virus would be unable to spread anymore. This plan ended up causing problems all around.
Alexander’s proposal was a bit against lockdowns. But he was wrong about the amount of sickness and death that would result, and this plan allowed the virus to spread among some low-risk groups.
“It’s unbelievable that while doctors like myself were working to treat sick COVID patients, begging people to stay at home and be safe,” Howard said, “there was another group of doctors working at cross-currents to us, prominent doctors wanting to purposely infect unvaccinated young people with the promise that herd immunity would arrive in a couple of months.”
The herd immunity theory has many problems. One is that immunity from COVID infection isn’t permanent and disappears over time. Also, infection with one variant of the virus doesn’t necessarily give immunity to other variants.
Another problem is that COVID can be a disease where the victim is of any age. So anyone who becomes infected could lead to serious health problems.
Today, more than three years after COVID first started, the U.S. still has not achieved herd immunity. The U.S. death toll stands at 1.13 million, where hundreds of children have died, and an estimated 245,000 children have lost one or both parents because of COVID. The U.S. leads the world in most COVID deaths.
Alexander’s proposal was a bit against lockdowns. But he was wrong about the amount of sickness and death that would result, and this plan allowed the virus to spread among some low-risk groups.
“It’s unbelievable that while doctors like myself were working to treat sick COVID patients, begging people to stay at home and be safe,” Howard said, “there was another group of doctors working at cross-currents to us, prominent doctors wanting to purposely infect unvaccinated young people with the promise that herd immunity would arrive in a couple of months.”
The herd immunity theory has many problems. One is that immunity from COVID infection isn’t permanent and disappears over time. Also, infection with one variant of the virus doesn’t necessarily give immunity to other variants.
Another problem is that COVID can be a disease where the victim is of any age. So anyone who becomes infected could lead to serious health problems.
Today, more than three years after COVID first started, the U.S. still has not achieved herd immunity. The U.S. death toll stands at 1.13 million, where hundreds of children have died, and an estimated 245,000 children have lost one or both parents because of COVID. The U.S. leads the world in most COVID deaths.
