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COVID-19 herd immunity may be unrealistic, says South African experts

Van der Heever also expressed concern about the late discovery that COVID-19 was an airborne virus. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- a patient wearing an oxygen mask is treated in a makeshift emergency unit at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photo | AP) By PTI JOHANNESBURG: Achieving herd immunity against the COVID-19 may be unrealistic due to the mutations of the virus that causes it, South African experts have said, as they called for long-term vaccination strategies amid uncertainty about current vaccine efficacy. Many governments are targeting herd immunity, but it is unachievable in the same way it is unachievable for flu, said Professor Alex van den Heever, health and social security systems specialist of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Governance.

Texas celebrates zero COVID-19 deaths after Biden mocked its reopening

Not so Neanderthal now! Texas celebrates zero COVID-19 daily deaths two months after reopening and lifting mask mandate - which Biden called Neanderthal thinking Texas on Sunday recorded zero new Covid deaths for the first time since it began tracking data on the virus in March 2020  It comes just two months after the state reopened on March 2, 2021, with Governor Abbott lifting the state s mask mandate  President Biden slammed the decision at the time as Neanderthal thinking   The U.S. recorded fewer than 17,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday for the first time since the pandemic took hold in America in March 2020

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