Herd Immunity Through Infection Is Not A Thing

As Omicron proves, you just get more infection

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3 min readJan 2, 2022

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Elephants protect their children from predators while humans let ours get mauled

You cannot get herd immunity from just getting the disease. This is not a thing. As health policy professor Howard Forman said, “there’s never been a real case of herd immunity through infection.” Never.

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Indrajit Samarajiva is a writer from Sri Lanka. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.