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The phrase “herd immunity” has become our utopia—a promised land where we can live life as it was before the pandemic. But it’s appropriate that utopia means “nowhere,” because whether that’s even possible has now come under debate. This is hard to hear because scientific pessimism about herd immunity feels like giving up on the whole idea of returning to normal life. But we can still look forward to the pandemic’s end if we understand what herd immunity really is. Spoiler alert: It’s complicated.
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In the fantasy version of herd immunity, when we get to the end of this nightmare, it will be sudden. We will cross a line and the pandemic will be declared over. We’ll burn our masks in the kitchen sink, book vacations, and start processing our PTSD. COVID-19 will become a relic of history. The end. No gray areas.
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Israel warns against Indian Covid strain, experts say Pfizer vaccine can neutralise it
As many as 41 cases were reported to have tested positive for the Indian variant in Israel. Five children were among the 41, of which four had been fully vaccinated.Â
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New Delhi: Israelâs Ministry of Health has warned of community transmission by the double mutant strain, also known as the Indian variant or B.1.617, after it found 41 cases in the country, 17 of whom hadnât been abroad.Â
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She’s exaggerating, but only just. The country recorded — no typo — 386,452 cases of COVID today, a figure universally seen as a gross underestimate of the true number of infections due to the lack of testing in certain areas. The health-care system there is so crushed that retired medical professionals are being asked to come back to work to help India cope. Crematoriums and cemeteries are overwhelmed. Supplemental oxygen is scarce. Hospitals don’t have empty beds. Vaccines are so hard to come by that India is actually *closing* vax centers in the midst of a national emergency because there are no doses to deliver.
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