Herd Immunity Thread.

Herd Immunity *was* part of government policy

Herd Immunity was *against* WHO advice and many of the subsequent deaths were predictable.

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1/ 13/03/20: Sir Patrick Vallance (UK Chief Scientific Adviser, SAGE member):

"Our aim is to try and reduce the peak, broaden the peak, not suppress it completely; also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some kind of herd immunity"

2/ 11/03/20: Dr. David Halpern (Chief Executive Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team, SAGE Member):

"You'll want to cocoon...those at-risk groups so that they basically don't catch the disease and by the time they come out of their cocooning, herd immunity's been achieved"

3/ 13/03/20 Dr. John Edmunds (Professor of Disease Modelling LSHTM, SAGE member):

"The only way to stop this epidemic is indeed to achieve herd immunity"

4/ 11/03/20: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO Director-General):

"We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction"

5/ 13/03/20: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO Director-General):

"Do not just let this fire burn"

6/ 13/03/20: Dr. Michael Ryan (WHO Executive Director)

"The virus will always get you if you don't act quickly...perfection is the enemy of the good"

7/ 12/03/20: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO Director-General):

"The idea that countries should shift from containment to mitigation is wrong and dangerous" https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1238110211291975681?s=20