Health economics professor @USC @SchaefferCenter | Principal & Co-Founder @StageHEOR | Past President & CEO @theNPIAP | Combines #PharmacoEconomics with #ML #AI
Feb 24, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Many have been talking excitedly about how 6-straight weeks of declining #COVID19 Cases are an indicator that USA reaching natural herd immunity in the next 4-6 weeks. Here are a bunch of reasons why that is bogus... #CoronavirusPandemic#vaccines1. 28.2 Million COVID cases in USA. Undoubtedly an underestimate due to lack of testing for symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, but far short of any relevant number to herd immunity in a population of 300+ million. GAVI says you need >65% immunization to protect herd