COVID-19 herd immunity achieved in Brazilian Amazon city?
A medRxiv preprint (aka not peer-reviewed aka read with grain of salt) claims that the herd immunity threshold has been reached in Manaus after 66% of the population became infected. 👀👀👀medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
A medRxiv preprint (aka not peer-reviewed aka read with grain of salt) claims that the herd immunity threshold has been reached in Manaus after 66% of the population became infected. 👀👀👀medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
The takeaway: This event could mean early predictions are right i.e., 60-70% of the population would need to be infected/vaccinated for herd immunity to be established/protect against the coronavirus.
Note: The infection-fatality rate for Manaus is 0.17% and 0.28%, likely due to the city's younger population (figure). In São Paulo, the IFR is 0.46% and 0.72%.
Tl;dr: Achieving herd immunity through natural infection alone would kill a lot of people medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Tl;dr: Achieving herd immunity through natural infection alone would kill a lot of people medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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