Parts of Sweden could achieve ‘herd immunity’ as early as next month, the country’s leading epidemiologist has said, as the death toll rises. The Government is holding out against a total lockdown despite growing calls for ‘rapid and radical measures’ to contain the coronavirus outbreak. It has cancelled football games and closed university buildings. Restaurants, … Read more
Professor Anthony Costello says Britain faces up to 10 waves of the coronavirus before the population develops herd immunity Britain could suffer 40,000 coronavirus deaths in the first wave of the outbreak, a leading expert has warned – as he claimed the UK may be hit by up to ten bouts of the killer infection before … Read more
Europe could be close to herd immunity from coronavirus already, with far more people infected than previously thought, according to a study in Germany. Scientists studying Gangelt, the town at the centre of Germany’s first big outbreak dubbed the ‘German Wuhan’, discovered that as many as 15 per cent of people may have already been … Read more
Beta and the Whisperers trapped the residents of Alexandria inside an abandoned hospital and prepared to kill them on Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead. That dramatic battle will no doubt change everything for the show’s survivors, though it won’t be seen until season 10’s official finale airs in a ‘special episode’ later this year … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS: How’s this for herd immunity? Animal feed maker with an anti-viral additive By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 Coronavirus has turned business as usual on its head. With the country in lockdown, millions of people on furlough and … Read more
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser on the coronavirus has warned that Britain might still have to adopt the controversial herd immunity policy to defeat the pandemic. Professor Graham Medley, the government’s chief pandemic modeller, said lockdown measures have pushed the UK ‘into a corner’, with no way of lifting restrictions while keeping the virus under control. … Read more
Dr Anthony Fauci warns Americans that they do NOT have ‘herd immunity’ to coronavirus because too few people have been infected – even as US cases climb past 164,000 Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says herd immunity the coronavirus is unlikely He said there have not been … Read more
The UK gave up on containing the coronavirus outbreak ‘too soon’ because scientists assumed most people would become infected anyway, a leading expert has claimed. Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the Edinburgh University, said the assumption led officials to abandon measures that could help slow the pandemic. Those measures include mass testing and stringent contact … Read more
China’s top coronavirus expert has warned that ‘herd immunity’ will not contain the global pandemic because the disease is highly infectious and lethal. The Chinese senior medical adviser rebuked UK’s approach to allow citizens to catch the virus to build up a national tolerance strong enough to stop the virus circulating. ‘Herd immunity won’t solve … Read more
Downing Street hits back against critics of its ‘herd immunity’ virus strategy – insisting top priority is to protect as many people as possible Downing Street has hit back against critics of its coronavirus strategy UK’s chief scientific adviser had said No 10 wanted to build up ‘herd immunity’ Public health experts demanded ‘transparency’ from … Read more