Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Problem With Lockdowns
The ideal non pharmaceutical intervention would be to quarantine the individuals who are already infected. If we don't have the right testing and contact tracing capabilities in place yet, then we need to be locking down the whole population. We're all wanting to avoid locking down again, of course, because it does enormous economic damage. There are three ways out of this: You just let the disease run, you get a lot of deaths, and then you'll get eventually to herd immunity. The other way is to increase herd immunity by vaccination. Other possibilities are to use passive protection, prophylaxis of one sort, which could be like the HIV situation where you take them ahead of time.
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