Terrible Risks of Herd Immunity; the So-Called Immune System Can Overcome Corona Virus

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Monday, Apr 06, 2020 | 02:02 pm

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Herd immunity might sound a little scary to try. Herd immunity is the immunity that is acquired after an infected person is able to survive, become invulnerable, and successfully heal by itself. That's because germs are increasingly difficult to find vulnerable hosts.

The idea of ??herd immunity went viral after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested this strategy against COVID-19. By just staying quiet and letting the disease spread by itself. The chief scientific adviser to the British government, Patrick Vallance also said that his country did indeed need herd immunity so that there would be many people who were immune to the disease.

As quoted from Technology Review, the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte also said the same thing, "We can slow the spread of the virus while at the same time building group immunity in a controlled manner."

Unfortunately, this can actually be a disaster. If the strategy is truly implemented, it is likely that there will be many people who become seriously ill and need treatment so that the hospital will be overwhelmed by it.

To clarify the information, Matt Hancock, the UK secretary for health and social care said, "Herd immunity is not our goal or policy. It's a scientific concept."

The death rate per COVID-19 infection or Coronavirus is around 1% and the death rate from cases taken to hospital is even higher. Actually the ability of herd immunity itself has been proven, like when the Zika virus began to spread. Zika virus is a mosquito-borne disease in 2015. Two years later, in 2017, the virus is no longer heard.

According to a study in Brazil, it was found that around 63% of the population in Salvador had been infected with the Zika virus. This is evidenced through examination of blood samples of the people there. The results of these studies led researchers to speculate that herd immunity was the one that killed the virus outbreak.

Coronavirus is a new virus. That is why not many people are immune to it and risk becoming very severe in some people. It is very likely that people who have recovered from Covid-19 have now become resistant, although the level of immunity is still unknown. Unfortunately, there is no certainty about it because some viruses, like the flu, can sometimes be fickle, so the immunity to seasonal germs is not completely complete.

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