What if herd immunity is not reached?

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What are the chances that not enough Americans will be vaccinated to reach that 80% goal to end the pandemic of COVID-19 to get our lives back to normal? Also, what if the supply, and demand of Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson does not rollout fast enough to get enough people vaccinated or inoculated anytime real soon if ever? What if the variants go wild so our lives will seemingly never return to normal? We’ve got problems! Then what happens next if we don’t reach 80% herd immunity?

Amaretta · Answer

Anti-vaxxers will refuse the vaccine because they refuse all vaccines. Apparently some Republicans (about 40% from what I've read) are also refusing to get vaccinated, either for political reasons or because they believe some of the crazy conspiracy theories floating around. That means that Covid-19 will continue to float around the country, making people sick and mutating so that that current vaccines may eventually be insufficient to protect people. Then it's possible that Covid may become like the annual flu, only deadlier.

Summertime · Answer

We can only cross that bridge when we come to it.

Jason · Answer

It's hard to say if we'll cross that threshold or not. It is very possible COVID will become endemic to the human species the way flu and RSV are -- controllable, but never eliminated.

What if herd immunity is not reached?

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