Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and @SunetraGupta argue today in WSJ that vaccines should end all lockdown measures by the end of January.
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Because of the age stratification of COVID risk, they argue that those at risk should receive the first vaccines, and once that's done, everything should be open. They further argue that lockdowns are more deadly than COVID to younger people.
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"Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, Americans will have enough doses to inoculate 20 million people in December and 30 million more in January... Some 50 million people in the U.S. are over 65."
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They say Pfizer "excluded people who had previously been infected with Covid-19 from its analysis, undoubtedly because natural immunity after recovery is known to be robust, so it expected the vaccine to provide no additional protection for them...
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"Children weren’t part of the vaccine trials and shouldn’t receive the vaccine unless it is proved to be safe for them. Not vaccinating those who have recovered will preserve doses for the vulnerable and still susceptible...
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"Priority should be given based on medical risk, not politics, or else more people will needlessly die... A combination of vaccine-induced immunity among the vulnerable and natural immunity among the less vulnerable will provide a solid wall of protection..."
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The article concludes, "Although the lockdowns should have been abandoned much earlier, the end is finally at hand with the advent of the vaccines. Then the work of repairing the damage can begin."
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