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To: sense who wrote (175679)	8/3/2021 8:34:39 PM
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In the meantime 'they' moved the goal post bloomberg.com Delta’s Spread Seen Pushing Herd Immunity Threshold Above 80% Emma Court 3 August 2021, 21:37 GMT+8 The spread of the delta coronavirus variant has pushed the threshold for herd immunity to well over 80% and potentially approaching 90%, according to an Infectious Diseases Society of America briefing on Tuesday. That represents a “much higher” bar than previous estimates of 60% to 70%, because delta is twice as transmissible, said Richard Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “It is becoming clear that this is a very dangerous, way more dangerous virus than the original one,” Franco said. Herd immunity is based on the idea that when a certain percentage of the population has been vaccinated against the virus or gains immunity by a previous infection, it helps protect the broader population and reduce transmission. Nearly 60% of Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and about 50% have been fully vaccinated, representing about 165 million individuals, according to CDC data. Some 35 million people in the U.S., meanwhile, have tested positive for the virus over the course of the pandemic. Read more: Why Even With Vaccines, Covid Will Always Be With Us: QuickTake Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE