On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:11 PM Peter Griffin <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  I keep hearing about a 'herd immunity strategy.'
> Isn't that, like, no strategy? Serious question. I mean, just let people
> get infected and let the chips fall where they may? What am I not smart
> enough to understand?
>

Herd immunity kicks in if around 60% of the population gets it. At a
conservative mortality rate at 0.5%, that would mean 40 lakh people dead in
India. It simply cannot be an option.

(I discussed it briefly in the first part of this episode:
https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/4/19/episode-169-taking-stock-of-covid-19/
)


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Amit Varma
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