Doctors say COVID-19 will become more like Influenza and will continue to grow and change in the future.
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That dream of herd immunity talked about early on in the pandemic seems a little bit out of reach. Doctors initially said if 70% of people either became vaccinated or infected, herd immunity was possible. Doctor James need director of infection prevention at the Medical Center of Aurora says with emerging variants like Delta and then Omicron, it’s become impossible to eradicate this disease as variants keep health scientists on their toes. Vaccines have been taken up significantly, but not to the threshold level that was originally proposed, and then the virus changed on us and it keeps moving. The goal post. I’ll be honest, I think we do have herd immunity from severe disease progression. That’s a very positive message you are immune from if you’re otherwise low risk and your boost your vaccinated boosted. You do have herd immunity from, you know, disastrous complication of this virus. And while Doctor Need says we have some form of herd immunity. He warns that the unvaccinated shouldn’t have the same confidence. Doctors say this virus will become more like an influenza and continue to grow and change. It won’t be like measles or mumps, which are almost entirely preventable with a vaccine.
