What do you understand by herd immunization? Why does the UK have herd immunization?
What do you understand by herd immunization? Why does the UK have herd immunization?
I think mankind should know that the evolution of living things is the process of the survival of the fittest. The approach of universal immunization seems to be cruel. But for life itself, it should face this cruelty. Humans as individual creatures if not able to go through such cruelty. The whole system is just as vulnerable. One day it will be eaten away by bacteria and viruses.
The so-called group epidemic prevention is to ignore, let it infected, dead on the dead, there are always live, live is self-produced antibodies, eliminate the day the virus, self-healing. In this way, many more people will die.
On Friday, the British government's chief scientific adviser, Lord Patrick Vallance, said on BBC Radio 4 that "one of the key things we need to do" is to "build up some sort of herd immunity so that more people are immune to the disease and we reduce transmission."
But on Sunday, British Health and Social Security Secretary Matt Hancock emphasized that achieving herd immunity against the coronavirus was not a stated policy. Instead, he said that "over the next few weeks" people over the age of 70 would be told to quarantine themselves. This contrasts with World Health Organization guidelines, which recommend that everyone, regardless of age, maintain a social distance.
He said, "We will listen to all credible scientists and we will look at all the evidence. Herd immunization is not our goal or policy, it is a scientific concept."
Britain has faced questions about the effectiveness of its social distancing guidance - for example, at a news conference on Thursday, government officials, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, did not specify whether large public gatherings, including soccer matches, would be canceled.
Britain's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said Thursday that it was a strategic decision to delay recommending the kind of social distancing encouraged in other countries, arguing that implementing the practice "too soon" would lead to people becoming exhausted and disengaged.
But Johnson has since said he will ban large rallies in the coming week in the face of later attitudes and a growing number of confirmed infections.
As in many countries, the coronavirus pandemic is a growing concern in the United Kingdom, where as of March 15, more than 1,100 people have tested positive for the virus and 21 have died.
As a result, the Government is under increasing pressure to announce a clearer, more coherent strategy to combat the virus, and has hinted that it may begin to publicize its strategy in the coming days.
Arguments about herd immunity
The rationale for achieving herd immunity is that it minimizes the risk of a resurgence of the coronavirus, similar to the second wave of the Spanish flu in 1918. In a successful herd immunization programme, the population of a country would be infected by the virus, recover, and then become immune to the virus, making them resistant to reinfection.
According to the UK, for herd immunization to work in his country, the virus would need to spread to about 60% of the UK.
With 66 million people in the UK living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this strategy could result in up to 40 million people becoming infected. Depending on the mortality rate - which depends on access to health care and other factors, but is estimated to be 1 percent globally - the mortality rate from immunization boosting could be between 300,000 and more than 1 million.
This reality led more than 200 scientists and medical professionals to oppose the herd immunization strategy in an open letter on Saturday. These experts argue that herd immunization "does not appear to be a viable option" because it could overwhelm Britain's National Health Service with very sick patients. Instead, they called for tougher social distancing measures than those currently proposed by the government.
"Herd Immunity" in layman's terms...is the natural (non-artificial) acquisition of immunity by the people of a country or nation, and in plain English it is a fight between the best and the worst of the worst, a fight between the strongest and the weakest!
So "herd immunization" ... can be considered a very cruel process! In the end, the majority of those who remain...are probably the strong or the young or those who have power, money, access to treatment and medication, etc.; the old, the sick, the disabled, the women, the children, or those who don't have the power, the money, or access to medication and treatment...may lose their lives in the process of "Herd Immunization! "Herd immunization"!
That is, there is no vaccine for the plague, there is no cure for it, let it develop until five or six percent of the people are infected with the disease, some people are old, weak immune system is low have died, the rest do not die of natural recovery, the body produces antibodies, the plague naturally disappears
Herd immunity is nothing more than surrendering in advance and allowing the population to fend for itself according to Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest.
This game is kind of like Russian roulette, where life and death have their own destiny and wealth is in the hands of God with you!
13. Patrick Vallance, the British government's chief scientific adviser, said that about 60 percent of the British population would need to be infected with the new coronavirus in order to acquire "herd immunity." He added that it was likely to return "year after year".
The cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the UK rose to 590 by 12 local time, with 130 new cases compared to the previous day. However, Vallance believes that the actual number of people infected in the UK is now likely to be between 5,000 and 10,000.
As for the death rate, Sky News said that while it has been implied that the death rate from coronavirus could be around 1 percent of those infected, Vallance said it was "difficult" to estimate how many deaths might occur because there could be many more yet to be detected. And there have now been 10 new deaths from coronavirus in the UK.
Vallance said it would take about 60% of the UK population to be infected with the new coronavirus to achieve "herd immunity".
Additionally, Vallance described C.N.C.P. as a "nasty disease," but said that most people only experience a "mild" form of the disease.
We can't speak for our own country, but there's only one country in the world that can contain a virus the way we can, and without our full help, it's hard for other countries to contain a virus as fast as we can, because ours works faster, theirs works slower, and it's more likely to cause people to panic, so we're not going to be able to contain it as fast as we can.
Herd immunization is false, laissez-faire infection is true! Freedom and democracy are fake, money and profit are real! Hypocritical Western countries, real rogue world!
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