{"id":2304,"date":"2021-07-16T00:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2021-07-16T00:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T00:53:35","slug":"the-truth-about-herd-immunity-and-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/the-truth-about-herd-immunity-and-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Herd Immunity and Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"height: 834px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"1322\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<div id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024yqt18110\">\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/everlast.mercolamarket.com\/r\/?id=h412447c3,26b3bb6e,26b3bb77&amp;mid=DM814496&amp;rid=1092896707&amp;p1=76e8b35543fe823bef2bb80618c90ffbaead1d8a09fb841ef256f6916944776f&amp;p2=20140525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/everlast.mercolamarket.com\/r\/?id%3Dh412447c3,26b3bb6e,26b3bb77%26mid%3DDM814496%26rid%3D1092896707%26p1%3D76e8b35543fe823bef2bb80618c90ffbaead1d8a09fb841ef256f6916944776f%26p2%3D20140525&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626482479679000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFC_q2j10q1fPRySbx_-CnZ6z48WA\"><strong>The Truth About Herd Immunity and Lockdowns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>In the race to herd immunity, we&#8217;re still being told that at least 70% of the population must either be vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19. But is that really true? Find out why a growing number of scientists believe the herd immunity threshold may be much lower &#8211; even as low as 10%.<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"120\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"500\">\n<table role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"120\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" width=\"120\" height=\"31\"><a href=\"https:\/\/everlast.mercolamarket.com\/r\/?id=h412447c3,26b3bb6e,26b3bb78&amp;mid=DM814496&amp;rid=1092896707&amp;p1=76e8b35543fe823bef2bb80618c90ffbaead1d8a09fb841ef256f6916944776f&amp;p2=20140525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/everlast.mercolamarket.com\/r\/?id%3Dh412447c3,26b3bb6e,26b3bb78%26mid%3DDM814496%26rid%3D1092896707%26p1%3D76e8b35543fe823bef2bb80618c90ffbaead1d8a09fb841ef256f6916944776f%26p2%3D20140525&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626482479679000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5EZ5-CW06x1-nSbepD8b8dFwoNA\">READ MORE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024expanderHead\">STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/h3>\n<div id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024expanderContent\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0\">Initial modeling predicted COVID-19 would have a fatality rate of 2% to 3%. In reality, it\u2019s nowhere near that, except for the elderly. One research team puts the overall infection fatality rate for all age groups at 0.32%<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1\">Modelers were also incorrect when they predicted that 70% to 80% would get infected before herd immunity would naturally allow the spread of infection to taper off. More than a dozen scientists now claim the herd immunity threshold is below 50%, perhaps even as low as 10%<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2\">Since lockdowns are a public health intervention aimed at saving lives, both the benefits and the costs of this strategy must be calculated and taken into account<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3\">The cost for lockdowns in Canada, in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years and Wellbeing Years, is at least 10 times greater than the benefit. In Australia, the minimum cost is 6.6 times higher, and in the U.S., the cost is estimated to be at least 5.2 times higher than the benefit of lockdowns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"m_3672092986449559955yiv8789821024bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4\">Researchers have estimated that in order to \u201cbreak even and make a radical containment and eradication policy worthwhile,\u201d the infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 would need to be 7.8%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth About Herd Immunity and Lockdowns In the race to herd immunity, we&#8217;re still being told that at least 70% of the population must either be vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19. But is that really true? Find out why a growing number of scientists believe the herd immunity threshold may be much lower &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/the-truth-about-herd-immunity-and-lockdowns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Truth About Herd Immunity and Lockdowns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourtrueinfosource.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}