US Unlikely to Reach Herd Immunity,
According to Experts.
As daily vaccination rates decline,
experts now predict the United States
will not reach a point ...
... where enough Americans are protected
from the virus to eliminate the pathogen.
New variants are spreading too quickly and
the vaccinations are proceeding too slowly for
herd immunity to be reached anytime soon, if ever.
Scientists and public health experts instead
believe that the virus will continue to
circulate on a more manageable level.
The continuation of immunizations is still crucial
to getting severe infections under control.
The virus is unlikely to go away.
But we want to do all we can to check that it’s likely to become
a mild infection. , Emory University evolutionary biologist Rustom Antia,
via ‘The New York Times’