Opinion Pieces Discuss ‘Herd Immunity’ As Strategy To End COVID-19

The Guardian: How do pandemics end? In different ways, but it’s never quick and never neat
Mark Honigsbaum, lecturer at City University of London and author (10/18).

STAT: We cannot rely on magical thinking: Herd immunity is not a plan
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Rachel West, postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Health Security and the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (10/16).

Washington Post: A half-million more people could die if America pursues a ‘herd immunity’ plan
Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives (10/18).

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