Why herd immunity isn t going to happen – Asia Times

Any notion that Covid-19 was going to last for only a few months was very much misplaced in 2020. Especially after it was recognized that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was largely spread through the airborne route, all indications were that it would cause repeat bouts of waves.

This is what happened in the flu epidemic of 1918.

In addition, very few scientists predicted that we would see the type of mutations that occurred over such a short period of time. This has resulted in the virus becoming both more transmissible and more able to evade immune responses.

The evolution of the virus has been so rapid that the Delta variant, which is now dominating the world, is at least twice as transmissible as the ancestral virus that was circulating.

What this means is that herd immunity is no longer a discussion the world should be having. We should start to avoid using that term in the context of SARS-CoV-2, because it s not going to materialize or is unlikely to materialize during our lifetimes.

via asiatimes.com

This guy is an academic virologist from South Africa. I have no idea if what he says is true. But, hey, if it is, that’s sure one heckuva virus those darn boffins cooked up, isn’t it? I say, let’s give them a few more billion dollars to see what they can come up with! That Dr. Fauci sure is a caution.