Achieving Herd Immunity: How vaccines and masks are the keys to fight coronavirus | Just The FAQs

Without masks and a vaccine, we could reach Herd Immunity from COVID-19, but deaths would skyrocket. We break down the science of it.

The message to vaccinate is not lost on Americans calling their doctors and pharmacists to schedule a flu shot appointment before the start of the 2020-2021 season.

Experts said it's crucial to get vaccinated this year because the coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals in parts of the country and taken the lives of more than 176,000 people in the USA, according to Johns Hopkins data.

It's hard to know how COVID-19 will mix with flu season: Will mask wearing and social distancing contain flu transmission as it's meant to do with SARS-CoV-2? Or will both viruses ransack the nation as some schools reopen for in-person learning?

"This fall, nothing can be more important than to try to increase the American public's decision to embrace the flu vaccine with confidence," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield told the editor of JAMA on Thursday. "This is a critical year for us to try to take flu as much off the table as we can."

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[FearNoEvil]

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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." - Edward Barnays, Author Propaganda

If you get triggered reading this quote, I suggest looking in the mirror because you are the problem.

[PrezCamacho]

Ha....we had chicken pox parties when I was a kid....

[weasel]

Millions would die to reach herd immunity. But since no one is doing anything about it but golfing I guess that's all we have left to hope for at this point that we won't be one of them 😷👎

[danielbackovic]

Wow this is the most bullshit iv heard/seen in a long time. Hahaha!

[clayton]

We are not cows, , what about the human population, , why use the word that we use for cows, , just wrong

[peyuzumaki]

Wow, how incredible, tell me something I don't know, it's logic more then science.