In an ABC News in the hallway of the city of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump insisted on welcoming George Stephanopoulos that the Covid-19 coronavirus would “disappear” even without a vaccine. This time, he added an explanation for why it would happen.
“You’ll expand, you’ll expand a herd, like a pack mentality,” Trump explained. “It’s going to be, it’s going to evolve through the herd, and it’s going to happen. All this will happen. But with a vaccine, I think it will happen very quickly.
Do you deal with this correctly? The video accompanying the following tweet from Dena Grayson, MD, shows what Trump said:
Well, that’s interesting. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines “herd mentality” as “the tendency of other people in an organization to think and behave in tactics that fit other members of the organization rather than as individuals. “Is that what they mean when they say you can do whatever you do?The brain in matter?
Before you start dressing in what everyone else uses just to make the virus go away, remember that Trump’s maximum maximum likely meant “herd immunity” rather than “collective mentality. “The two sentences are similar, unless they mean something very different. stuff. A bit like putting a leash on your dog or putting a leash on your vegetarian hot dog.
But Trump just made a verbal mistake, you know, like Thigh-land (the Southeast Asian country that’s far from a calf or ass land), the July 11 terrorist attacks (which had nothing to do with Slurpees), and his wife Melanie, unlike First Lady Melania. There were also the oranges from Mueller’s investigation, unless the fruit or spray tan was somehow related:
However, that hasn’t stopped Twittersphere from creating a trend toward a “herd mentality. “You could tell that there was a bit of a herd mentality about the herd mentality in the Tweets. For example, there was this:
And this:
People also asked what herd mentality meant:
Some wondered if the herd mentality was a smart thing to do:
But he even had questions about herd immunity:
Especially, there are some disadvantages to achieving a herd immunity threshold:
Herd immunity, if you haven’t heard it before, is the concept that more and more people are immune to SARS-CoV2 over time after they have become inflamed and then recovered from the infection. The concept is that once a certain proportion of the population (the herd immunity threshold) is immune in this way, the virus can no longer easily locate more people to infect and therefore stops spreading.
Proponents of a “herd immunity strategy” have advocated letting the virus “run its course” in the U. S. population. The U. S. government is not doing much to engage it or prevent its spread. Our “food” strategy. It can work if what spreads is innocent like Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” challenge. But what about the Covid-19 coronavirus?
Let’s see for a moment that curing an infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) can give you lasting immunity to the virus. There is a very small challenge with this “herd immunity strategy” approach. People will die. A lot of people.
If at least 60% of the U. S. population is in the U. S. The U. S. will have to be infected with the virus to cross the herd immunity threshold, that means at least 60% of the 328 million people in the U. S. 196. 8 million, or 196. 8 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the SARS-CoV2 infection mortality rate (IFR), which is the number of Covid-19 deaths divided by the number of people inflamed, is about 0. 5% to 1%. This would mean that between 0. 98 and 1. 97 million other people would eventually die. This could be a conservative estimate, as the herd immunity threshold could be higher than 70% or even 80%.
Also, death isn’t the only bad thing this virus can cause. Having Covid-19 is not a picnic, unless your picnics have a tendency to have diarrhea, shortness of breath, and a doo-doo feeling. People can spread other headaches as blood. clots or even inflammation of the heart. In addition, many other people seem to have persistent symptoms well beyond the initial infection. Therefore, a herd immunity strategy would cause a lot of suffering.
Again, all of this assumes that it can expand lasting immunity to the virus after it has been infected. It also assumes that the virus won’t mutate to the point where it can dodge this immunity. If immunity turns out to be only temporary, a herd immunity. The strategy will never work, no matter how many other people are willing to sacrifice.
US President Donald Trump introduces Stanford University’s Hoover Institution senior fellow Dr. Array. [ ] Scott Atlas, a press convention in the Brady Room of the White House in Washington, DC, August 12, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
These are the reasons why few true pandemic experts advocate a herd immunity technique for the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Scott Atlas, MD, the neuroradiologist who has become one of Trump’s closest advisers, promoted the herd immunity technique, as Alison Durkee reported for Forbes. While Atlas can be useful if you want to read someone’s brain scan, nothing in their background suggests they’re an expert in pandemic reactions or infectious diseases.
It is likely that this virus is going on for quite some time. In fact, it will likely never go away. Even after this pandemic subsides, it is possible that it will become one of the viruses circulating like the flu. Herd immunity is not passing to prevent this virus this year. And the herd doesn’t have a mentality either.
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