Also, roughly 50 million people in the U.S. are children under the age of 12. Vaccinating this group may not start until early 2022.
“Those two groups alone mean that we probably will not be able to approach true herd immunity by the end of the year unless people dramatically change in terms of their willingness to take [the] vaccine,” or that vaccinations are permitted to be expanded more rapidly to younger children, said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Kim-Farley said he expects we eventually will achieve low levels of disease transmission, but “we probably will not achieve zero, which is what you would hope to achieve with true herd immunity. There’ll be probably then-isolated outbreaks that would be occurring around the country, especially in any pockets of persons who tend to be vaccine-hesitant, or in groups of young children.”
By City News Service
Mar 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - With the pool of eligible COVID-19 vaccine recipients about to expand again this week, Los Angeles County is getting some additional vaccination clinics, including one that will open Tuesday.
City Councilman Mitch O Farrell on Saturday announced details about two additional sites for a traveling COVID-19 vaccination clinic in his 13th Los Angeles Council District.
A clinic located at Clinica Romero, at 123 S. Alvarado St., will open Tuesday and provide vaccinations until Saturday. This location is intended for eligible individuals who live or work in Council District 13, particularly those who live or work in Westlake, Historic Filipinotown, Rampart Village, and Koreatown, O Farrell s office said.
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