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New declaration calls for ‘focused protection’ to achieve COVID-19 herd immunity. Critics say it would be deadly
Article content continued But the declaration also arrives as young people grow tired of living, as Naylor described it, in “COVID-19 limbo,” as people working in small businesses lose livelihoods, as U.S. President Donald Trump, fresh from a three-night hospital stay for COVID-19, encourages Americans “don’t fear COVID.” All of it could give the herd-immunity… Read More »
A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces
Once again, the coronavirus is ascendant. As infections mount across the country, it is dawning on Americans that the epidemic is now unstoppable, and that no corner of the nation will be left untouched. As of Wednesday, the pathogen had infected at least 4.3 million Americans, killing more than 150,000. Many experts fear the virus… Read More »
Why coronavirus superspreaders may mean we avoid a deadly pandemic
By Debora MacKenzie Medical imaging is being used to work out how the coronavirus affects the bodyFeng Dapeng/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images For yet another week, covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has remained poised just short of becoming a pandemic. As case counts stabilise in China, and don’t take off elsewhere, the big question is: will… Read More »