Image credit: CVS Health Newsroom
Dr. Malia Jones of University of Wisconsin-Madison says herd immunity is not a “magic light switch” to end the pandemic.
“Herd immunity” is a term that is often thrown around to indicate a point where the United States would have enough people vaccinated or otherwise immune to COVID-19 that we could all go back to some semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy. The actual threshold for herd immunity is under debate among public health experts.
“It’s not something that’s easy to forecast for any disease until we’ve actually reached it and then started to lose it.” Dr. Malia Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison