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Mike's avatar

I guess stillbirths were not taken into these calculations.

Their loss adds a lot of life years, and they should be easily mapped to when vaccination during child bearing years occurred.

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

In terms of herd immunity, we probably got to a transient community immunity of 15% by summer 2020, helped greatly by the warm weather. This is when Johnson made masks mandatory in shops, when Covid had disappeared! The disease, being seasonal, came back in autumn 2020 and took off again, especially as kids went back to school and students returned to university. We quickly got to the actual herd immunity threshold of 40% by December and infections and deaths started heading downwards. Thereafter, Covid would have become a stable endemic seasonally recurring disease. But then the elderly got jabbed and they started dying in large numbers. Then the government and NHS began jabbing anything that moved on two legs and the course of the Covid pandemic in the UK was radically and permanently altered. Omicron may not be the last throw of the dice, as Geert Vanden Bossche keeps ominously warning.

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