Re: [MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>Guess we'll have to rely on heart disease and prescription drugs as boogiemen >again for awhile. ADE or VADE. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://

Re: [MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Yes that's true. But the number of vaccines being given is so huge it will not make much difference soon. I think I read they did 100M in 50 days? And the rate is increasing AFAIK. Heading in the right direction anyway. On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:25 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.

Re: [MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Unfortunately a bunch of those are almost certainly doubled up by which I mean people who have had it getting vaccinated. So our total "cleared" number won't be what it could be. Guess we'll have to rely on heart disease and prescription drugs as boogiemen again for awhile. -Curt On Friday

Re: [MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Yeah it would be great if that happens. Prob about 83M total infections in the US so far: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html So yes the vaccinations put us over 200M. There are some new strains around with stickier spike proteins, the California and UK variants, w

Re: [MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I do hope you are right. RB On 19/03/2021 4:13 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: In the USofA, 30M documented cases of Wuhan Red Death, probably at least 2x to 5x of that are not documented. Add to that 118M vaccinations, so we probably have about 200M out of 330M with some level of immunit

[MBZ] Herd Immunity?

2021-03-19 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
In the USofA, 30M documented cases of Wuhan Red Death, probably at least 2x to 5x of that are not documented. Add to that 118M vaccinations, so we probably have about 200M out of 330M with some level of immunity. Another 30 days, another 30M vaccinations, we should be well over the 2/3 threshold