Crowd cure
(WorldNews Health)

Last month, while countries around the world started to shut down schools, markets, workplaces and prohibit public gatherings in response to the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic, the UK government mooted the strategy of `herd immunity` to combat it. On March 13, Britain´s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said that more than half of the UK´s population of 66 million would have to contract the coronavirus for society to build up immunity against it. In an interview to Sky News, he said,`Communities will become immune to it and that´s going to be an important part of controlling this longer term. About 60 per cent is the sort of figure you need to get herd immunity.`...